Kant and Cosmopolitanism - The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship

Informationen zum Autor Pauline Kleingeld is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is the author of Fortschritt und Vernunft: Zur Geschichtsphilosophie Kants (1995) and the editor of Immanuel Kant, 'Toward Perpetual Peace' and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History (2006). Klappentext First comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, offering a novel interpretation of eighteenth-century and current philosophical discussions. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism! highlighting its moral! political! economic! cultural and psychological aspects. Pauline Kleingeld sheds new light on Kant's mature view by showing how it evolved! how it relates to the views of his contemporaries and how it can contribute to current debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. World citizens in their own country: Wieland and Kant on moral cosmopolitanism and patriotism; 2. Universal republic of world citizens or international federation?: Cloots and Kant on global peace; 3. Global hospitality: Kant's concept of cosmopolitan right; 4. Hierarchy or diversity?: Forster and Kant on race, culture, and cosmopolitanism; 5. International trade and justice: Hegewisch and Kant on cosmopolitanism and globalization; 6. Cosmopolitanism and feeling: Novalis and Kant on the development of a universal human community; 7. Kant's cosmopolitanism and current philosophical debates; Bibliography; Index.

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• Autori: Pauline Kleingeld, Pauline (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Kleingeld, Kleingeld Pauline
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521764186
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76418-6
• Pagine: 232
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy: Enlightenment