Table Of ContentPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY NOW
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Chief Editor of the Series:
Howard Williams, Aberystwyth University, Wales
Associate Editors:
Wolfgang Kersting, University of Kiel, Germany
Renato Cristi, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Susan Meld Shell, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA
David Boucher, Cardiff University, Wales
Political Philosophy Now is a series which deals with authors,
topics and periods in political philosophy from the perspective of
their relevance to current debates. The series presents a spread of
subjects and points of view from various traditions which include
European and New World debates in political philosophy.
Also in series
Hegel and Marx: After the Fall of Communism
David MacGregor
Politics and Teleology in Kant
Edited by Paul Formosa, Avery Goldman and Tatiana Patrone
Identity, Politics and the Novel: The Aesthetic Moment
Ian Fraser
Kant on Sublimity and Morality
Joshua Rayman
Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
Edited by Sorin Baiasu, Sami Pihlström and Howard Williams
Nietzsche and Napoleon: The Dionysian Conspiracy
Don Dombowsky
Nietzsche On Theognis of Megara
Renato Cristi and Oscar Velásquez
Francis Fukuyama and the end of history
Howard Williams, David Sullivan and E. Gwynn Matthews
Kant’s Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress
Luigi Caranti
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY NOW
Kant’s Doctrine of Right in
the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Larry Krasnoff, Nuria Sánchez Madrid
and Paula Satne
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS • CARDIFF • 2018
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Larry Krasnoff, Nuria Sánchez Madrid and Paula Satne
1 The Originality of Kant’s Social Contract Theory 9
Macarena Marey
2 Private Property and the Possibility of Consent:
Kant and Social Contract Theory 29
Alice Pinheiro Walla
3 Judging Rights by Their Duties: A Kantian
Perspective on Human Rights 46
Eric Boot
4 The Proper Task of Kantian Politics: The Relationship
between Politics and Happiness 68
Masataka Oki
5 Kant on Poverty and Welfare: Social Demands and
Juridical Goals in Kant’s Doctrine of Right 85
Nuria Sánchez Madrid
6 On the (Supposed) Distinction Between Classical
and Welfare Liberalism: Lessons from the Doctrine
of Right 101
Larry Krasnoff
7 Resistance and Reform in Kant’s Doctrine of Right 122
Wendy Brockie
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8 Civil Disobedience: Towards a New Kantian
Conception 140
Alyssa R. Bernstein
9 Kantian Insights on the Moral Personality of the State 161
Milla Emilia Vaha
10 Kant’s Guarantee for Perpetual Peace:
A Reinterpretation and Defence 181
Sorin Baiasu
11 Forgiveness and Punishment in Kant’s Moral System 201
Paula Satne
12 A Universal Estate: On Kant and Marriage Equality 220
Jordan Pascoe
Index 241
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Contributors
Sorin Baiasu is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University (UK).
He is the Director of the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian
(KOSAK) Research Centre, Secretary of the UK Kant Society and
co-convenor of the Kantian Standing Group of the European Con-
sortium for Political Research. He is author of Kant and S artre:
Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011) and editor or co-editor
of several volumes, including Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
(University of Wales Press, co-edited with Howard Williams and
Sami Pihlström, 2011). He has published articles in Kant-Studien,
Kantian Review, Studi Kantiani and The Bulletin of the Hegel
Society of Great Britain.
Alyssa R. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio
University, where she has been teaching moral, political, and
legal philosophy since 2002. She was a postdoctoral fellow at
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (2000–2),
visiting scholar at DePauw University’s Prindle Institute for Ethics
(2007–8), and director of Ohio University’s Institute for Applied
and Professional Ethics (2011–16), Her articles on the political
philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls have appeared
in various academic journals, including Kantian Review. She has
also published on climate change and justice in Midwest Studies in
Philosophy and in Ethics, Policy & Environment.
Eric Boot is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University’s Institute
of Philosophy, and the coordinator of the Study Group Political
Philosophy of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW).
In 2017, he won both the Praemium Erasmianum for best disser-
tation in the fields of the humanities and social sciences, and the
dissertation prize of the Netherlands Association for Philosophy
of Law (VWR). His work has appeared in such journals as Social
Theory and Practice and Ratio Juris. His monograph Human
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Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse is set to appear
in Springer’s series Studies in Global Justice in December 2017.
Wendy Brockie is a postgraduate student at Staffordshire Univer-
sity, currently researching towards her PhD on ‘Kant’s Account
of Divine Providence’. She has formerly studied and taught at
Birmingham City University, and gained an MA (Distinction) in
Creative Writing at Keele University. She also holds an MA in
English Studies, and papers include ‘Peace and Providence: Kant’s
Acknowledgement of the Divine’, and ‘Kant’s Understanding of
Genius’.
Larry Krasnoff is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the Col-
lege of Charleston. He is co-editor of New Essays on the History
of Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and author of
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: An Introduction (Cambridge
University Press, 2008). His essays have appeared in the Journal of
Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy, the Philosophi-
cal Quarterly, and Kant-Studien.
Macarena Marey is full-time researcher at CONICET (National
Scientific and Research Council, Argentina) and Professor at the
University of Buenos Aires. She has published severally on Kant’s
ethics and political philosophy, as well as on other subjects within
the scope of practical philosophy. She is part of the editorial board
of several specialised journals.
Masataka Oki is Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-
doctoral Research Fellow. He is the author of Kants Stimme. Eine
Untersuchung des Politischen bei Immanuel Kant (Berlin: Duncker
& Humblot, 2016). He has contributed to volumes published by
Ōfū, Gyōsei, and has published articles on Kant’s political philoso-
phy in journals such as The Annuals of Japanese Political Science
Association and The Waseda Journal of Political Science and Eco-
nomics. He teaches courses in political philosophy and modern
Japanese political theory at Tübingen University (Germany).
Jordan Pascoe is Assistant Professor at Manhattan College in New
York City. She has published several pieces on Kant’s political phil-
osophy, especially in relation to women, marriage, and labour. She
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runs the Center for Ethics at Manhattan College, and has been a
Fellow of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center,
City University of New York.
Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Associate Professor at the Faculty of
Philosophy of the UCM (Spain). She is executive secretary of the
journals Isegoría, Revista de Filosofía and Con-textos Kantianos.
She has contributed to volumes published by Olms, Walter de
Gruyter and Palgrave McMillan, and has published articles and
critical notes on Kant’s political philosophy and anthropology in
international journals such as Daimon, Philosophica, Anales del
Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, Isegoría, Anuario filosófico,
Pensamiento, Trans/Form/Açâo, Studia Kantiana and Kant e-prints.
Paula Satne is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Man-
chester (UK). She has published articles on Kant’s and Aristotle’s
moral theories, and recently edited a special issue on Forgiveness
and Conflict for the journal Philosophia (2016).
Milla Emilia Vaha is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Depart-
ment of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science
at the University of Turku (Finland). Her research focuses on the
ethics and international relations, especially the ethics of war and
moral agency of the state in relation to use of force, global and
climate justice. She has published in edited volumes and inter-
national journals such as Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of
International Political Theory and Pacific Affairs. In 2016–17 she
was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Peradeniya
in Sri Lanka, and previously Visiting Research Fellow at the Uni-
versity of Queensland in Australia.
Alice Pinheiro Walla is a Junior Professor of Political Philosophy
(Global Justice) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is a
Kant scholar by training, and has published a number of articles
on Kant’s practical philosophy. Her research interests are polit-
ical philosophy, moral philosophy, legal philosophy and history
of philosophy. She holds a Magister degree (MagPhil) from the
University of Vienna (2006), a Masters of Letters in Philosophy
(MLitt) from the University of St Andrews (2007), and a PhD in
Philosophy from the University of St Andrews (2012).
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