Overview
This is the first book dedicated to a systematic exploration of Kant's position on colonialism. Bringing together a team of leading scholars in both the history of political thought and normative theory, the chapters in the volume seek to place Kant's thoughts on colonialism in historical context, examine the tensions that the assessment of colonialism produces in Kant's work, and evaluate the relevance of these reflections for current debates on global justice and the relation of Western political thinking to other parts of the world.
Full Product Details
Author: Katrin Flikschuh (London School of Economics) ,
Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.460kg
ISBN: 9780199669622
ISBN 10: 0199669627
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 20 November 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The present collection provides evidence of the complexity, diversity and evolving nature of Kant's thinking. He tackles the problems of race and colonialism at various stages of his philosophical career. Each stage evinces a slightly different hue to his thinking... This lively collection seeks to discover to what extent these wrongs can be mitigated and possibly made right, largely from within a Kantian perspective. Through careful analysis of Kant's writings, the authors seek to demonstrate the extent to which Kant shared the mindset of the ascendant European colonizers and to what extent he is critical of it. Howard Williams, Journal of the History of Philosophy [T]his volume is highly instructive and the right starting point for anyone who wants to understand Kant's position on colonialism. Thomas Khruana, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online a highly valuable book for many readers... Pedro Teixeira, Ethical Perspectives
[T]his volume is highly instructive and the right starting point for anyone who wants to understand Kant's position on colonialism. Thomas Khruana, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Author Information
Katrin Flikschuh is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. She works on Kant's political philosophy and its relation to contemporary liberal thinking, and has growing interests in modern African political philosophy. She is principal investigator of a three year International Networks Project awarded by the Leverhulme Trust that endeavours to bring African and Western political thinking into productive contact with each other (2014-2017). She is author of Kant and Modern Political Philosophy (CUP, 2000); Freedom: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives (Polity Press, 2007), and Kant contra Cosmopolitanism: Assessing the Global Justice Debate (CUP, forthcoming). Lea Ypi is Associate Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is interested in theories of justice, representation in democratic theory and Enlightenment political thought. She is the author ofGlobal Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency (OUP, 2012) and co-editor (with Sarah Fine) of Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (OUP, forthcoming).
