Kant's Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim : a critical guide / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty and James Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rorty, Amélie, editor.

Schmidt, James, editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical guides.

Cambridge critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lively debates about narratives of historical progress, the conditions for international justice, and the implications of globalisation have prompted a renewed interest in Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim. The essays in this volume, written by distinguished contributors, discuss the questions that are at the core of Kant's investigations. Does the study of history convey any philosophical insight? Can it provide political guidance? How are we to understand the destructive and bloody upheavals that constitute so much of human experience? What connections, if any, can be traced between politics, economics, and morality? What is the relation between the rule of law in the nation state and the advancement of a cosmopolitan political order? These questions and others are examined and discussed in a book that will be of interest to philosophers, social and political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historians.

Contents:

Teleology and history in Kant : the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of history / Henry E. Allison

The purposive development of human capacities / Karl Ameriks

Reason as a species characteristic / Manfred Kuehn

Good out of evil : Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability / J.B. Schneewind

Kant's fourth proposition : the unsociable sociability of human nature / Allen Wood

The crooked timber of mankind / Paul Guyer

A habitat for humanity / Barbara Herman

Kant's changing cosmopolitanism / Pauline Kleingeld

The hidden plan of nature / Eckart Förster

Providence as progress : Kant's variations on a tale of origins / Genevieve Lloyd

Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history / Terry Pinkard

Philosophy helps history / Rüdiger Bittner.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-255) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19818-6

1-282-31652-4

9786612316524

0-511-58143-2

0-511-53906-1

0-511-54079-5

0-511-54045-0

0-511-53823-5

0-511-53990-8

OCLC:

609840555