Reading Kant's Geography / edited by Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elden, Stuart, 1971-

Mendieta, Eduardo.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography--Philosophy.

Geography.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Physische Geographie.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

vii, 382 p.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Perspectives on Kant's teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.

Contents:

Intro

Reading Kant's Geography

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Reintroducing Kant's Geography

I. The Invention of Geography: Kant and His Times

2. Immanuel Kant and the Emergence of Modern Geography1

3. Kant's Geography in Comparative Perspective

II. From a Lecture Course of Forty Years to a Book Manuscript: Textual Issues

4. Kant's Lectures on "Physical Geography": A Brief Outline of Its Origins, Transmission,and Development: 1754-1805

5. Historical and Philological Referenceson the Question of a Possible Hierarchyof Human "Races," "Peoples," or"Populations" in Immanuel Kant-A Supplement.

6. Translating Kant's Physical Geography: Travails and Insights into Eighteenth Century Science (and Philosophy)

7. Writing Space: Historical Narrative and Geographical Description in Kant's Physical Geography

III. Towards a Cosmopolitan Education: Geography and Anthropology

8. "The Play of Nature"Human Beings in Kant's Geography1

9. The Pragmatic Use of Kant's Physical Geography Lectures

10.The Place of the Organismin Kantian Philosophy: Geography, Teleology, and the Limits of Philosophy

IV. Kant's Geography of Reason: Reason and Its Spatiality

11. Kant's Geography of Reason1

12. Orientation in Thinking: Geographical Problems, Political Solutions1

13. "The Unity of All Places on the Face of the Earth": Original Community, Acquisition, and Universal Will in Kant's Doctrine of Right1

V. Gender, Race, History, and Geography

14. Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropology and Geography

15. Is there Still Room for Freedom?A Commentary on David Harvey's"Kant's Anthropology and Geography"

16. Kant's Third Thoughts on Race

17. The Darker Side of the Enlightenment: A De-Colonial Reading of Kant's Geography.

18. Geography Is to History as Woman Is to Man: Kant on Sex, Race, and Geography: On the way to an Epilogue

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438436067

1438436068

9781441697455

1441697454

OCLC:

743802618