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This volume, consisting of fourteen essays by leading scholars in the field, is the first to focus in depth on the critically important relationship between politics and teleology in Kant's work.
List of contents
Introduction: The Connection between Politics and Teleology in Kant Paul Formosa, Avery Goldman and Tatiana Patrone 1. Natural Right in Toward Perpetual Peace Howard Williams 2. The Ends of Politics: Kant on Sovereignty, Civil Disobedience and Cosmopolitanism Paul Formosa 3. The Development of Kant's Cosmopolitanism Pauline Kleingeld 4. Kant's Principles of Publicity Allen Wood 5. Public Reason and Kantian Civic Education, or: are the humanities 'dispensable' and if not, why not? Susan Meld Shell 6. Kant, Justice and Civic Fellowship Sarah Holtman 7. Teleology and the Grounds of Duties of Juridical Right Tatiana Patrone 8. The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace: Three Concerns Luigi Caranti 9. The Function and Structure of Teleology in Kant's Philosophy of History and Political Philosophy Thomas Fiegle 10. The Political Foundations of Prophetic History Sharon Anderson-Gold 11. What are we allowed to hope? Kant's Philosophy of History as Political Philosophy Fotini Vaki 12. Perfected Humanity: Nature's Final End and the End in Itself Richard Dean 13. The Principle of Purposiveness: From the Beautiful to the Biological and finally to the Political in Kant's Critique of Judgment Avery Goldman 14. Kant's Pure Ethics and the Problem of 'Application' Angelica Nuzzo
About the author
Paul Formosa is Research Fellow and Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. He has published widely on topics in moral and political philosophy, in particular on Kant and moral evil. Avery Goldman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Illinois. He teaches and conducts research related to Kant, post-Kantian German philosophy and Phenomenology. Tatiana Patrone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ithaca College, New York. Her research and teaching focuses on Kant's ethical theory and current issues in applied ethics.
Summary
This volume, consisting of fourteen essays by leading scholars in the field, is the first to focus in depth on the critically important relationship between politics and teleology in Kant's work.
