Transnational cosmopolitanism : Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft

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Based on the theoretical reconstruction of neglected post-WWI writings and political action of W. E. B. Du Bois, this volume offers a normative account of transnational cosmopolitanism. Pointing out the limitations of Kant's cosmopolitanism through a novel contextual account of Perpetual Peace, Transnational Cosmopolitanism shows how these limits remain in neo-Kantian scholarship. Inés Valdez's framework overcomes these limitations in a methodologically unique way, taking Du Bois's writings and his coalitional political action both as text that should inform our theorization and normative insights. The cosmopolitanism proposed in this work is an original contribution that questions the contemporary currency of Kant's canonical approach and enlists overlooked resources to radicalize, democratize, and transnationalize cosmopolitanism. Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Dedication Epigraph Contents Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Works by Immanuel Kant and W. E. B. Du Bois Introduction: Taking the Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism Seriously Past and Present, Center and Margins, and the Question of Interpretation Contributions and Plan of the Book 1 The Limits of Kant's Anti-Colonialism and His Philosophy of History Colonialism, Race, and Europe What Colonialism? War, Britain, and the Context of Writing Antagonism and Equilibrium A Typology of Antagonism War and Europe Multiplication and Trade Multiplication and Hierarchy Sense and Sensibility Antagonism, Judgment, and Teleology Not Philanthropy, but Right Conclusion 2 Vertical and Horizontal Readings of Kant's Principles Neo-Kantians' Cosmopolitanisms Conceptualizing the Transnational within Cosmopolitanism A Horizontal and Reciprocal Reading of Kant's Spheres of Right A Reciprocal Complementarity Hospitality Conclusion 3 Du Bois and a Radical, Transnational Cosmopolitanism Progress Is Regress Aesthetics and Politics The Politics of Aesthetics The Aesthetics of Politics Transnationalized Cosmopolitanism Du Bois and the Event The Pan-African Movement The Founding of the UN An Appeal to the World Toward a Radical Hospitality Toward Transnational Cosmopolitanism Conclusion 4 Race, Identity, and the Question of Transnational Solidarity in Cosmopolitanism Identity, Solidarity, Multiplicity, and the Political Craft Black Transnational Subjects After Souls The Transnationalization of US Space Changing Anti-Imperialism and a Radical Cosmopolitanism Identity, Subjectivity, and the Transnational Transnationalism and Segregation: An Elective Affinity? Complicating Identity and Solidarity within Cosmopolitanism Conclusion 5 A Transnationally Cosmopolitan Counter-Public An Anti-Colonial Transnational Counter-Public The Structural Transformation of the Transnational Public Sphere Diagnostic Function Connective Function Political Activation Function Counter-Sovereign Function Transnational Counter-Publics and the Politics of Empire Conclusion Conclusion: The Promise of a Transnational Cosmopolitanism The Good, the Bad, and the Hospitable Global Justice in a Transnational Lens Western Crisis in a Transnational Lens References Index