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Kant's universalism and the concept of race Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shorter-Bourhanou, Jameliah Inga, author.
- Series:
- Philosophy of race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Race--Philosophy.
- Race.
- Universals (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]
- Summary:
- In 'Kant's Universalism and the Concept of Race', Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou provides an account of Kant's views on universalism, with a particular focus on Kant's racism and its surrounding controversy. In this book, Shorter-Bourhanou embraces both sides of the traditional debate around this topic, agreeing with such philosophers as Pauline Kleingeld and Allen W. Wood that Kant's universalist theory offers moral, social, and political philosophies worth preserving. Shorter also agrees with philosophers Robert Bernasconi and Charles W. Mills that Kant's racist ideas impact his moral, social, and political philosophies
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- What Can We Hope?
- Approaches to Kant, Race, and Universalism
- Rehabilitation Approaches to Kant and Race
- Critics of Kant and Race
- About the Book
- Methodology: Critical Philosophy of Race
- About Universalism and Chapter Descriptions
- Notes
- 1 Resituating Race: The Emergence of a Philosophy of Race
- Physical Geography and Anthropology (1755-1796)
- The First Essay on Race: "Of the Different Races of Human Beings" (1777)
- Keime und Anlagen
- Naturbeschreiber/Naturgeschichte
- Kant and the Racial Hierarchy
- The Second Essay on Race: "Determination of the Concept of a Human Race" (1785)
- The Concept of Race
- Purposiveness and Race
- Kant's Late Views on Race (1790-1804)
- 2 Reinventing Universalism: Kant, Race, and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- What is Universalism?
- Universalism and Personhood
- Reinventing Universalism
- Reinvention: Thoughts on Scholarship in the Discipline of Philosophy
- 3 The Problem with Potential: Universalism, History, and Human Development
- Human Progress and Interpretations of Nature
- Anlagen and Development
- Defining Labor
- Labor and Culture
- The Goal of Human Progress: Cosmopolitanism
- 4 Explaining Subservience: Kant and the Enslavement of Africans
- The Kant-Forster Debate
- "On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy" (1788)
- Kant and the Enslavement of Africans
- Possible Objection
- Islanders
- Women
- Conclusion
- 5 The Illusion of Equality: Kant's Cosmopolitanism
- Defining Cosmopolitanism: "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Project"
- Pauline Kleingeld and Kantian Cosmopolitanism
- The Two Indicators
- Colonialism
- Cosmopolitan Right, Hospitality, and Commerce
- Colonization and Contracts
- Chattel Slavery
- 6 Teaching Race in Philosophy
- Why We Should Teach Race
- So How Do We Teach Race?
- A Note about Teaching Graduate Students about Race
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780197519875
- 0197519873
- 9780197519851
- 0197519857
- 9780197519868
- 0197519865
- OCLC:
- 1574926068
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000359171
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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