Kant and the politics of racism : towards Kant's racialised form of cosmopolitan right / Jimmy Yab.
2021
HT1523 .Y23 2021eb
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Kant and the politics of racism : towards Kant's racialised form of cosmopolitan right / Jimmy Yab.
Author
Yab, Jimmy, author.
ISBN
9783030691011 (electronic bk.)
3030691012 (electronic bk.)
9783030691004
3030691004
3030691012 (electronic bk.)
9783030691004
3030691004
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
Language
English
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1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages : illustrations (black and white))
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10.1007/978-3-030-69101-1 doi
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HT1523 .Y23 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
177/.5
Summary
This book proposes an account of the place of the theory of race in Kants thought as a central part of philosophical anthropology in his political system. Kants theory of race, this book argues, is integral to the analysis of the Charakteristik of the human species and determined by human natural predispositions. The understanding of his theory as such suggests not only an alternative reading to the orthodox narrative we have seen so far but also reveals the underlying centrality of the notion of human natural predispositions in a way that is consequential for Kants philosophy as a whole. What is the impact of Kants racial theory on his philosophy and political thought? Is Kant a consistent egalitarian or a partisan Universalist thinker? Is he the symbol of racist prejudices of his time? What is the influence of his racial hierarchy on his cosmopolitan right? Or more simply, is Kant racist? From a systematic examination of Kant relevant writings, this book provides answers to these questions and shed light on two fundamental problems of his theory of race for moral philosophy, namely: (1) the completeness of the character of the White race and (2) the dispossession of the character of the beauty and the dignity of human nature of the Negro race. These two issues, unperceived from the orthodox Breadings perspective, however, uncovered by the heterodox reading, not only shape Kants race thinking from the beginning to the end of his life, transform his cosmopolitan right into a non-universalist form of right, but merely define Kant as a fundamental racist thinker since he developed the anthropology, the philosophy, and the politics of racism in a systematic way.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards a Heterodox Reading of Kant's Theory of Race
Part I: Problematising the "Orthodox" Reading
Kant on Race: The Current Debate
Critique of the Orthodox Reading
Part II: Reconstructing Kant's Theory of Race
Kant, Race and Natural History
Kant, Race and Teleology
Part III: Kant's Theory of Race and Cosmopolitanism
Kant, Race and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Kant's Non-Universal Cosmopolitanism
Concluding remarks.
Part I: Problematising the "Orthodox" Reading
Kant on Race: The Current Debate
Critique of the Orthodox Reading
Part II: Reconstructing Kant's Theory of Race
Kant, Race and Natural History
Kant, Race and Teleology
Part III: Kant's Theory of Race and Cosmopolitanism
Kant, Race and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Kant's Non-Universal Cosmopolitanism
Concluding remarks.