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Kant's 'Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim': A Critical Guide

By Amélie Oksenberg Rorty , James Schmidt

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521874637, 9780521874632
LCC
D16.7 .E77 2009
Open Library ID
OL10438058M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1351284 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Critical Guides
Edition
1
Pages
270\271
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Lively current 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.

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