Kant and Colonialism Historical and Critical Perspectives

by Flikschuh, Katrin; Ypi, Lea

• ISBN13: 9780199669622
• ISBN10: 0199669627
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-01-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Katrin Flikschuh is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. She works on Kant's political philosophy and its relation to contemporary liberal thinking, and has growing interests in modern African political philosophy. She is principal investigator of a three year International Networks Project awarded by the Leverhulme Trust that endeavours to bring African and Western political thinking into productive contact with each other (2014-2017). She is author of Kant and Modern Political Philosophy (CUP, 2000); Freedom: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives (Polity Press, 2007), and Kant contra Cosmopolitanism: Assessing the Global Justice Debate (CUP, forthcoming).

Lea Ypi is Associate Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is interested in theories of justice, representation in democratic theory and Enlightenment political thought. She is the author ofGlobal Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency (OUP, 2012) and co-editor (with Sarah Fine) of Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (OUP, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Kant on colonialism: apologist or critic?, Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi
1. The Law of continuity: colonies, provinces and the justice of war within the limits of Kant's International Right, Anthony Pagden
2. Kant's second thoughts on colonialism, Pauline Kleingeld
3. Productive resistance in Kant's political thought: domination, counter-domination, and global unsocial sociability, Sankar Muthu
4. Commerce and colonialism in Kant's philosophy of history, Lea Ypi
5. Colonists, traders or settlers? Kant on fair international trade and legitimate settlement, Liesbet Vanhaute
6. Kant's juridical theory of colonialism, Arthur Ripstein
7. Restorative justice in international and cosmopolitan law, Peter Niesen
8. Provisional right and non-state peoples, Anna Stilz
9. Colonial mentality: Kant's hospitality right then and now, Martin Ajei and Katrin Flikschuh
Index