Charles de Villers et son Essai sur la Réformation Une vision kantienne de l’histoire ?

The study, which focuses on the treatise On the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther (1804), concerns, on the point of his perception of history, Villers’s debts to Kant. It first considers the philosophical undergrounds, then highlights the analogies between the Essay and Kant’s Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and finally shows the discrepancies between the two authors and the specificity of their views of history.