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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155520503321

Autore

Fillion Real Robert <1963->

Titolo

Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History : Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx / / Real Fillion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2008

Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-280-69063-1

9786613667571

0-7766-1760-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Collana

Philosophica, , 1480-4670.

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

Philosophy / Political

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Where Are We Headed?; PART I: ONE WORLD; Chapter 1: Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View; Chapter 2: Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal; PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF RECOGNITION; Prologue: Hospitality-Conditional and Unconditional; Chapter 3: Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Familiarities; Chapter 4: Hegel, The Particularity of Conflicts, and the Spaces of ""Reason-ability""; PART III: THE BASIC STRUGGLE; Chapter 5: Marx, Productive Forces, and History; Chapter 6: The Biopolitical Production of the Common

Conclusion: The Dynamic Telos of History - A Shared Democratic WorldWorks Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and



the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: ""Where are we headed?"" Grounding his answer in the twin observations that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural and increasingly unified, Fillion reasserts