Kant's Cosmopolitanism and Migration : Historical and Interpretative Essays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez Madrid, Nuria.

Contributor:

Sánchez Madrid

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Cosmopolitanism.

Globalization.

Local Subjects:

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

Bringing together essays from an international set of Kant scholars, most of whom have particular expertise in political and social theory, this volume explores the normative and empirical features of Kant's engagement with cosmopolitan right and migration challenges.

Contents:

Intro

Kant's Cosmopolitanism and Migration

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Part I: Normative Accounts of Kant's Cosmopolitan Order

Borders, Cosmopolitan Sovereignty, andGlobal Mobility. A Kantian Account of Political Interdependence

1 Global Politics and the Violence of Borders

2 Kant's Account of Borders

3 Kant's Two Levels of Sovereignty

4 Civilizing Borders: The Rights of Non-StatePeople

5 A Cosmopolitan Right to Global Mobility? SomeThorny Features of Kant's Ideal Global Traveler

Concluding Remarks

References

Abbreviations of Works by Immanuel Kant

Works Cited

Cosmopolitanism and Political Realism: Kant's Double Legacy and ContemporaryPolitical Challenge

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Is Humanity (Morally) Progressing? Kant's Philosophy of History under a Cosmopolitan Perspective

1 Preliminary Puzzles in Kant's Definition of Progress

2 Addressing Kant's Conundrum on Moral and Historical Progress

3 Progress as Interpretation

4 What Does Kant Mean by Progress as Interpretation?

5 Are There Intrinsic Limitations to Human Progress as Emancipation?

6 Purposiveness and Natural Predispositions

7 Progress as Historical Purposiveness

8 Framing History under an A Priori Regulative Idea of Reason

9 Cosmopolitan Progress

10 The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason

Part II: Kant's Cosmopolitanism: Between Past and Future

The Rights of Foreigners. Grotius, Pufendorf, and Kant

1 Self-Preservation, Sociability, and Migration: Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf

1.1 Hugo Grotius (1583 - 1645): The Rights of Foreigners as Survivals of the Primitive Community of Possession.

1.2 Samuel Pufendorf (1632 - 1694): The Rights of Foreigners as Correlates of Our Duties of Humanity

2 Kantian Freedom in the Face of Interdependence and Vulnerability

2.1 Global Human Interdependence and Cosmopolitan Public Laws

2.2 Human Vulnerability and Cosmopolitan Justice

Kant's Cosmopolitan Philosophy in the Face of the Challenges of Migration

No One Is Illegal (Only) in the Kingdom of Ends: Migration and the Double Legacy of Kant's Political Philosophy

1 Kant and the Philosophy of Exclusion

1.1 Cosmopolitan Right as a Limit

1.2 Cosmopolitan Right as Critique of Colonialism

2 Migrants and Kant

2.1 Common Possession of Earth

2.2 No One Is Illegal as a Universal Maxim and Law

2.3 No One Is Illegal Only in a World Republic

Part III: Contemporary Migration Under the Lensof Kant's Cosmopolitan Right

The Right to Dwell (Anywhere) on Earth and the Promise of Human Community

1 The Material Conditions of Human Coexistence

2 The Spherical Surface of the Earth as the Empirical Ground for Original Common Possession of Earthly Goods

3 The Spherical Shape of the Earth and thePromise of a Human Community

4 The Spherical Surface of the Earth and the Right to Free Movement

5 The Right to Settle

6 Entering into a Contract

7 Migration and Rights

Kant, Migration, and the Cosmopolitan Right Not to Be Treated with Hostility

1 Three Contexts of Hostility

2 Kant's Use of the Notion of Hostility

3 Hostility as Wrongdoing beyondInstrumentalization

4 Kant's Ethical Theory of Hostility

5 Three Examples of Hostile Attitudes towards Migrants.

Example 1 Theresa May: Creating a Hostile Environment

Example 2 Emmanuel Macron: Creating Migrant Jobs

Example 3 Gabrielus Landsbergis: Refusing Russians

Evaluation of the Examples

Kant and Migration: State and Demos Borders

1 Kant and Cosmopolitan Right

2 Principle of Non-Refoulement and the Right toa Safe Harbour

3 The Original Community of Land in General

4 Theory of Property, Territory, and Borders

5 Cosmopolitan State and the Integration ofMigrants

Notes on Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-170742-3

OCLC:

1533774707