ABSTRACT
The most pronounced efforts to include Kant in relation to International Relations (IR) broadly or as one who could contribute generally to IR theory largely only recommend ways in which his writings may be read in those very terms, out of either historical interest or the desire to lend authority to an arm of IR scholarship that does not depend on Kant in any case. There is already strong documentation and analysis of the fact that, as a collection of debates and a discipline ordered to form knowledge of the world, IR is constituted from vibrantly rich social, psychological, and textual expressions of the cultural problems at play in producing this knowledge. To review the short history of the discipline of IR, in its conventional forms, is to look upon an entire series of efforts to describe the global reality of a singular world, along with the parts from which it supposedly is made.
