Grounding Cosmopolitanism: From Kant to the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution

249 Pages·1.124 MB·English

by  Garrett Wallace Brown

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Garrett Wallace Brown is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield
and the author of Cosmopolitanism (forthcoming).
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Grounding Cosmopolitanism
From Kant to the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution
Garrett Wallace Brown
Edinburgh University Press
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Contents
A Note on the Texts and Kant Referencing ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
I An Abridged History of Cosmopolitan Thought and the
Connections to Kant’s Cosmopolitanism 4
II Contemporary Cosmopolitan Themes and the
Distinctiveness of a Kantian Approach to
Cosmopolitanism 9
III The Critiques of Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of
Response 15
IV Methodology: Kant the Cosmopolitan and a Kantian
form of Cosmopolitanism 20
Part One
1. Kant’s Cosmopolitanism 31
I Moral Foundations of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism 33
II Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and Kant’s Problematic
Theory of History 37
III Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence and the Foundation for a
Cosmopolitan Matrix 44
IV Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence and the Development of a
Kantian Cosmopolitan Matrix 47
V Conclusion 50
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2. Kant’s Cosmopolitan Law and the Idea of a Cosmopolitan
Constitution 55
I Cosmopolitan Law and a Condition of Cosmopolitan
Right 57
II Cosmopolitan Right and the Laws of Hospitality 59
III Kantian Constitutionalism and the Idea of a
Cosmopolitan Constitution 66
IV Conclusion 78
Part Two
3. State Sovereignty, Federation and Kant’s Cosmopolitanism 87
I Kant’s Move from Natural Law to Lawful
Cosmopolitanism 89
II The Defi nitive Articles of Perpetual Peace and the
Jurisprudence of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism 94
III The Scope of Federation in a Cosmopolitan Order 106
IV Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and its Relationship to
Contemporary International Relations Theory 110
V Conclusion 117
4. Cultural Difference and Kant’s Cosmopolitan Law 123
I Claims from Culture: Cultural Relativism and Cultural
Pluralism 126
II Some Confusion Regarding Cultural Communities and
Identity 128
III Kant’s Pragmatic Anthropology and the Cosmopolitan
Alternative to the Reductionist Sociology of Culture 131
IV Cultural Relativism and the Critique of Kantian
Universalism 133
V Coexist versus Cohere: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and
Cultural Pluralism 140
VI Conclusion: Kantian Cosmopolitanism and Diversity 143
5. Distributive Justice and the Capability for Effective Autonomy 149
I Normative Principles of Kant’s Distributive Justice 150
II Kant’s Social Welfare and Distributive Justice 159
III Effective Autonomy and Capabilities for Freedom 167
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Contents
IV Effective Autonomy and Cosmopolitan Concerns for
Distributive Justice 171
V Conclusion 178
6. Conclusion: Applied Theory and a Continued Cosmopolitan
Enthusiasm 186
I Implications of Kant’s Constitutional Cosmopolitanism:
Globalization, Global Markets and Inequality 189
II The Protection of Cosmopolitan Right and the Global
Forum 191
III Humanitarian Assistance and Global Justice 195
IV The Idea of Universal Human Rights as a Basis for
Cosmopolitan Right 198
V Applied Theory: Toward a Cosmopolitan Condition 202
VI Conclusion 210
Bibliography 217
Index 231
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A Note on the Texts and Kant Referencing
All citations to the works of Immanuel Kant will contain the bibliograph-
ical information and page references of the English translation as well as
the reference information for Kants gesammelte Schriften, edited by the
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (referred to as the Akademie edition).
As is standard practice, the Akademie reference will immediately follow
the page number given for the English translation. The Akademie refer-
ence will be encased within brackets at the end of the citation and will
provide the volume number and page number [volume number: page(s)].
For example, [8:310] or [8:310–13]. The following translations for Kant’s
works have been used:
Hans Reiss (ed.) and H. B. Nisbet (trans.), Kant’s Political Writings
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970). This collection of
essays includes Kant’s: (1784) “Idea for a Universal History with a
Cosmopolitan Purpose,” (1784) “An Answer to the Question: ‘What is
Enlightenment?’,” (1793) “On the Common Saying: This May be True
in Theory, But it Does not Apply in Practice,” (1795) “Perpetual Peace:
A Philosophical Sketch,” and (1798) “The Contest of Faculties.” In
all instances, references to these essays by Kant will be related to this
collection.
Immanuel Kant (1785), Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, James W.
Ellington (trans.), (Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993). In
all instances, references to this work by Kant will be related strictly to this
translation.
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