Record Detail Back
Kant and Colonialism
- Share to:
This is the first volume dedicated to a systematic exploration of Kant’s position on colonialism. There are no similar volumes currently avail- able. For good reason, one may think: after all, the issue of colonialism is marginal to Kant’s philosophical thinking as well as to eighteenth-century Prussian politics. Kant’s critics disagree. Though few Kant scholars have so far engaged systematically with the development of Kant’s views on colonialism, plenty of his critics have recently done so. Indeed, when it comes to ‘Kant and colonialism’, the current scholarly status quo is not altogether unlike that of the much longer-running battle over ‘Kant and race’. Philosophers of race have for some time now focused on Kant as the central philosophical force behind Enlightenment racism and its enduring legacies. In that debate, Kant is charged with having ‘invented’ the concept of race and with having thereby legitimised philosophical racism.1 Some decry Kant as the philosophical forerunner of the Nazi doctrine of ‘Untermenschen’.
Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978–0–19–966962–2
NONE
Kant and Colonialism
Management
English
Oxford University Press Inc
2014
1-273
LOADING LIST...
LOADING LIST...