Table Of ContentKANT’S COSMOPOLITICS
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In memory of
Gary Banham and B. Sharon Byrd
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KANT’S COSMOPOLITICS
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND
GLOBAL DEBATES
Edited by Garrett Wallace Brown and
Áron Telegdi-Csetri
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CONTENTS
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
A Note on Referencing the Works of Immanuel Kant xiv
1 Background Issues and Challenges in Kant’s Cosmopolitanism 1
Garrett Wallace Brown and Áron Telegdi-Csetri
PART 1 SOVEREIGNTY AND KANT’S COSMOPOLITICS
2 Cosmopolitan Right and Universal Citizenship 15
Gary Banham
3 Kantian Republicanism in the International Sphere:
Equal Sovereignty as a Condition of Global Justice 27
Kjartan Koch Mikalsen
PART 2 PUBLICITY IN COSMOPOLITICS
4 Provisional Publicity 51
Heather M. Roff
5 Republicanism and Cosmopolitanism: A Kantian Reconciliation 70
Kostas Koukouzelis
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PART 3 THE REALISABILITY OF COSMOPOLITAN IDEALS
6 The Realisability of Kant’s Cosmopolitan Values 97
Sorin Baiasu
7 Rethinking ‘Kant’s Europe’ and Cosmopolitan Right 125
Garrett Wallace Brown
8 Rereading Kantian Hospitality for the Present 151
Dilek Huseyinzadegan
PART 4 COSMOPOLITANISM AND CULTURE
9 Taking a Detour: Kant’s Theory of Moral Cosmopolitan Education 179
Georg Cavallar
10 Is there a Cosmopolitan Impetus behind Kant’s Defi nition of
Taste as the Discipline of Genius? An Appraisal 200
Ştefan-Sebastian Maftei
Index 225
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Sorin Baiasu is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University. He currently acts as
Director of the Keele–Oxford–St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre,
Secretary and Member of the Executive Committee of the UK Kant Society,
and Co-convenor of the Kantian Standing Group of the European Consortium
for Political Research. A central area of his research is Kant’s practical phi-
losophy. His work on topics in this area has been published in, among others,
Kant-Studien, Kantian Review and Studi Kantiani. He co-edited Politics and
Metaphysics in Kant (with Howard Williams and Sami Pihlström, University
of Wales Press, 2011) and Kant on Practical Justifi cation: Interpretive Essays
(with Mark Timmons, Oxford University Press, 2013). His research was sup-
ported fi nancially by, among others, the European Commission, the European
Research Council and the British Academy. Also relevant to his research in this
area are two forthcoming co-edited volumes: Kant and the Continental Tradi-
tion (with Alberto Vanzo, Routledge, 2019) and The Kantian Mind (with Mark
Timmons, Routledge, 2019).
Gary Banham was the founding editor of Kant Studies Online and General
Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s philosophy series, Renewing Philosophy. He
was educated at the University of Hertfordshire and at Hertford College,
Oxford. He authored numerous articles on Kantian philosophy, as well as a
number of books on Kant, including Kant and the End of Aesthetics (Palgrave,
1999), Kant’s Practical Philosophy (Palgrave, 2000) and Kant’s Transcendental
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Imagination (Palgrave, 2007). He was beloved by his friends and was a fantas-
tic person to enjoy a pint with. He is greatly missed.
Garrett Wallace Brown is Professor of Political Theory and Global Health Pol-
icy in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds.
He co-leads the University of Leeds Global Health cross-faculty theme and has
produced extensive research at the crossroads between global health and moral
philosophy. He is currently working with the Ministry of Health Zimbabwe
and Mozambique on a qualitative and quantitative Medical Research Council
grant examining contextual moderators on performance-based programming.
Outside of global health his research interests include cosmopolitan theory,
Kant’s cosmopolitanism, the laws of hospitality, global constitutionalism and
key issues in global justice. He is the author of Grounding Cosmopolitanism:
From Kant to the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution (Edinburgh University
Press, 2009), The Cosmopolitanism Reader with David Held (Polity, 2010),
and The State and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities with Richard Beardsworth
and Richard Shapcott (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Georg Cavallar, Universitätsdozent of Modern History at the Department of
History, University of Vienna, has published on Kant’s political philosophy, the
history of international law, and the philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Among his
publications are: The Rights of Strangers: Theories of International Hospital-
ity, the Global Community, and Political Justice Since Vitoria (Ashgate, 2002);
Imperfect Cosmopolis: Studies in the History of International Legal Theory and
Cosmopolitan Ideas (University of Wales Press, 2011); Kant’s Embedded Cosmo-
politanism: History, Philosophy and Education for World Citizens (de Gruyter,
2015); Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte, vol. 183 (de Gruyter, 2015); and Theories
of Dynamic Cosmopolitanism in Modern European History (Peter Lang, 2017).
More recently, Cavallar has published on modernity, the Enlightenment and
Islamic cultures: Islam, Aufklärung und Moderne: Ein Plädoyer (Kohlhammer,
2017) and Gescheiterte Aufklärung? Ein philosophischer Essay (Kohlhammer,
2018). He is currently working on an introduction to philosophy. He lives with
his wife and their three children in Vienna.
Dilek Huseyinzadegan is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at
Emory University (Atlanta). She was educated at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul)
and DePaul University (Chicago). She has taught at Istanbul Koç University,
the Art Institute of Chicago and Sabanci University. She publishes essays on
topics ranging from Kant’s political philosophy to feminism, critical philos-
ophy of race, post- and decolonial thought, and the early Frankfurt school
(especially Adorno and Horkheimer). Her current research interests gravitate
toward a social and political philosophy conceptualised outside the European /
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Anglo-American paradigms. She is the author of Kant’s Nonideal Theory of
Politics (Northwestern University Press, 2019).
Kostas Koukouzelis holds a doctorate from the University of London and is
currently an Assistant Professor at the Philosophy and Social Studies Depart-
ment, University of Crete. His research interests lie in political philosophy and
philosophy of law, global justice, Kant, and bioethics with a special focus on
environmental sustainability, climate change and intergenerational justice.
Some of his publications have appeared in Globalizations, Journal of Global
Ethics, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Synthesis Philosophica, Public Reason:
A Journal of Political & Moral Philosophy, Politics in Central Europe and
Theory, Culture & Society.
Ştefan-Sebastian Maftei holds a PhD in Philosophy from ‘Babeş-Bolyai’ Uni-
versity and is currently Lecturer at ‘Babeş-Bolyai’ University, Department of
Philosophy, Cluj-Napoca (Romania). His PhD was a study of Nietzsche’s phi-
losophy of art and its contributions to the issue of ‘genius’. His main research
areas are philosophy of art, rhetoric, and philosophy of culture. His current
research interests focus on the relation between aesthetic experience and social
experience in modern aesthetics and everyday aesthetics, as well as on the
relation of early twentieth-century art with politics and political values. He
has published texts in academic journals such as Rivista di Estetica, Studia
Phaenomenologica, The African Yearbook of Rhetoric, Sztuka i fi lozofi a / Art
and Philosophy, The Annals of the University of Bucharest, Studia Universi-
tatis Babeş-Bolyai and Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies. His
latest book is Attaining Humanity: Aesthetic and Moral Education in Schiller
and Rousseau (forthcoming).
Kjartan Koch Mikalsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Norwegian
University of Science and Technology. He specialises in political and legal phi-
losophy. His research interests include democratic theory, political legitimacy,
republican and liberal political thought, and the philosophy of international
law. He has published articles on Immanuel Kant, Jürgen Habermas, Carl
Schmitt and Leo Strauss.
Heather M. Roff received her PhD in Political Science from the University of
Colorado at Boulder (2010). She is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the
Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford,
and a Research Scientist in the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State Uni-
versity, and has held faculty positions at the Korbel School of International
Studies at the University of Denver, the University of Waterloo and the United
States Air Force Academy. She is also a research fellow at New America in
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