1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137649103321

Titolo

China's dilemma [[electronic resource] ] : economic growth, the environment and climate change / / Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia ; ; China : , : Asia Pacific Press : , : Brookings Institution Press : , : Social Sciences Academic Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-921536-03-9

0-7315-3819-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations, charts

Collana

China Update Series

Disciplina

330.951

Soggetti

Climatic changes - China

China Economic conditions 2000-

China Economic policy 2000-

China Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 325; Pages:326 to 350; Pages:351 to 375; Pages:376 to 400; Pages:401 to 425; Pages:426 to 446



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790674003321

Autore

Szendy Peter

Titolo

Kant in the land of extraterrestrials : cosmopolitical philosofictions / / Peter Szendy ; translated by Will Bishop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5551-4

0-8232-5550-6

0-8232-6094-1

0-8232-5553-0

0-8232-5552-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BishopWill

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism

Science fiction - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Little bit of tourism -- Star wars -- Kant in the land of extraterrestrials -- Cosmetics and cosmopolitics -- Weightless: the Archimedean point of the sensible -- What's left of cosmopolitanism?

Sommario/riassunto

“Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials.” This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens of which Kant speaks—and he no doubt took them more seriously than anyone else in the history of philosophy—are the limits of globalization, or what Kant called cosmopolitanism.Before engaging Kantian considerations of the inhabitants of other worlds, before comprehending his reasoned alienology, this book works its way through an analysis of the star wars raging above our heads in the guise of international treaties regulating the law of space, including the cosmopirates that Carl Schmitt sometimes mentions in his late writings.Turning to track the comings and goings of extraterrestrials in Kant’s work, Szendy reveals that they are the necessary condition for an unattainable definition of humanity. Impossible to represent, escaping any possible experience, they are nonetheless inscribed both at the heart of the sensible and as an



Archimedean point from whose perspective the interweavings of the sensible can be viewed.Reading Kant in dialogue with science fiction films (films he seems already to have seen) involves making him speak of questions now pressing in upon us: our endangered planet, ecology, a war of the worlds. But it also means attempting to think, with or beyond Kant, what a point of view might be.