03689nam 22007091 450 991081409080332120200520144314.00-8232-5551-40-8232-5550-60-8232-6094-10-8232-5553-00-8232-5552-210.1515/9780823255528(CKB)2550000001123605(EBL)3239856(SSID)ssj0001003774(PQKBManifestationID)11614367(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001003774(PQKBWorkID)11038609(PQKB)11617133(MiAaPQ)EBC3239856(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292587(OCoLC)859536311(MdBmJHUP)muse27581(DE-B1597)554988(DE-B1597)9780823255528(MiAaPQ)EBC1480974(Au-PeEL)EBL3239856(CaPaEBR)ebr10778845(CaONFJC)MIL525322(Au-PeEL)EBL1480974(OCoLC)861559207(EXLCZ)99255000000112360520130604d2013 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrKant in the land of extraterrestrials cosmopolitical philosofictions /Peter Szendy ; translated by Will BishopFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2013.1 online resource (192 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-5549-2 1-299-94071-4 Includes bibliographical references.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?“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.CosmopolitanismScience fictionPhilosophyCosmopolitanism.Science fictionPhilosophy.193Szendy Peter625456MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814090803321Kant in the land of extraterrestrials4189446UNINA