Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions

Author/Contributor(s):	Szendy, Peter
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	09/02/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Kant has taken seriously, as no one else in the history of philosophy did, the existence of extraterrestrials. Their central role in his thought allows for a new approach of cosmopolitanism, in a tight dialogue with Carl Schmitt. At stake is a geopolitics of the sensible.