Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan AimAmélie Rorty, James Schmidt 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
AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY AND JAMES SCHMIDT | 9 |
the critical foundations | 24 |
KARL AMERIKS | 46 |
MANFRED KUEIIN | 68 |
Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability | 94 |
the unsociable sociability | 112 |
The crooked timber of mankind | 129 |
Kants changing cosmopolitanism | 171 |
Kants variations on a tale of origins | 200 |
Norms facts and the philosophy of history | 216 |
Philosophy helps history | 231 |
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