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Kant's Universalism and the Concept of Race.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shorter-Bourhanou, Jameliah Inga.
Series:
Philosophy of Race Series
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 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 his racism. The author aims to reconcile differing views on this topic and the controversy around it, offering fresh, truly inclusive possibilities for Kantian philosophy and ideology more broadly.
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:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-751985-7
0-19-751986-5
OCLC:
1574926068

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