Kant on the Frontier : Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth (Lit Z)

Bennington, Geoffrey

Fordham University Press（2017/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780823275984
• DDC分類 320.01

Full Description

Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being—often violently—challenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders.
The frontier is the very element of Kant's thought yet the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontier's complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kant's most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace.
Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.

Contents

Preface to the English Edition Pre-liminary Prolegomena 1. The End of Nature 2. The Return of Nature 3. Rest in Peace Interlude-The Guiding Thread (on Philosophical Reading) 4. Radical Nature 5. The Abyss of Judgment Finis Appendix: On Transcendental Fiction (Grenze and Schranke) Index