Garrett Wallace Brown
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638819
- eISBN:
- 9780748652822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638819.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter discusses the role of cultural diversity in Kant's cosmopolitan thought. In this chapter, it defends a reformulation of Kant's epistemology of culture against cultural relativists, ...
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This chapter discusses the role of cultural diversity in Kant's cosmopolitan thought. In this chapter, it defends a reformulation of Kant's epistemology of culture against cultural relativists, cultural pluralists and claims from culture which deny the possibility of cosmopolitan law. It argues that cosmopolitan law does not command normative shifts beyond the psychological or cultural capacities of human beings and further suggests that cultures are not static entities that should be protected from a concept of cosmopolitan law. The ultimate position is that a Kantian vision of cosmopolitan law does not reduce a plurality of cultures, but seeks to establish minimal cosmopolitan principles in order to allow various cultures to peacefully coexist.Less
This chapter discusses the role of cultural diversity in Kant's cosmopolitan thought. In this chapter, it defends a reformulation of Kant's epistemology of culture against cultural relativists, cultural pluralists and claims from culture which deny the possibility of cosmopolitan law. It argues that cosmopolitan law does not command normative shifts beyond the psychological or cultural capacities of human beings and further suggests that cultures are not static entities that should be protected from a concept of cosmopolitan law. The ultimate position is that a Kantian vision of cosmopolitan law does not reduce a plurality of cultures, but seeks to establish minimal cosmopolitan principles in order to allow various cultures to peacefully coexist.
Brett Levinson
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823223848
- eISBN:
- 9780823235421
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823223848.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This book explores the possibilities for a genuinely radical critique of globalized culture and politics—at a time when intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike struggle to understand the ...
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This book explores the possibilities for a genuinely radical critique of globalized culture and politics—at a time when intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike struggle to understand the configuration of the contemporary world. This book seeks to unsettle a naturalized and commonsensical assumption: that democracy and the economic market must be viewed as either united or at odds. Against both neoliberalists and cultural pluralists, the book argues that the state is not yielding to the market, but that the universe now turns on a “duopoly” between statist and global forms, one that generates not only economic and cultural sites but also ways of knowing, a postdemocratic episteme. Touching upon current issues such as terrorism, human rights, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the notion of the “people”, delving into the idea of biopolitics, and investigating the essential relation between language and political praxis, the book engages with the work of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancière, Etienne Balibar, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Michel Foucault, and others.Less
This book explores the possibilities for a genuinely radical critique of globalized culture and politics—at a time when intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike struggle to understand the configuration of the contemporary world. This book seeks to unsettle a naturalized and commonsensical assumption: that democracy and the economic market must be viewed as either united or at odds. Against both neoliberalists and cultural pluralists, the book argues that the state is not yielding to the market, but that the universe now turns on a “duopoly” between statist and global forms, one that generates not only economic and cultural sites but also ways of knowing, a postdemocratic episteme. Touching upon current issues such as terrorism, human rights, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the notion of the “people”, delving into the idea of biopolitics, and investigating the essential relation between language and political praxis, the book engages with the work of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancière, Etienne Balibar, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Michel Foucault, and others.
