Reading Kant's Geography / / edited by Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 382 p
• Disciplina: 910/.02
• Soggetto topico: Geography - Philosophy
• Altri autori: EldenStuart <1971-> MendietaEduardo
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Reading Kant's Geography -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Reintroducing Kant's Geography -- I. The Invention of Geography: Kant and His Times -- 2. Immanuel Kant and the Emergence of Modern Geography1 -- 3. Kant's Geography in Comparative Perspective -- II. From a Lecture Course of Forty Years to a Book Manuscript: Textual Issues -- 4. Kant's Lectures on "Physical Geography": A Brief Outline of Its Origins, Transmission,and Development: 1754-1805 -- 5. Historical and Philological Referenceson the Question of a Possible Hierarchyof Human "Races," "Peoples," or"Populations" in Immanuel Kant-A Supplement. -- 6. Translating Kant's Physical Geography: Travails and Insights into Eighteenth Century Science (and Philosophy) -- 7. Writing Space: Historical Narrative and Geographical Description in Kant's Physical Geography -- III. Towards a Cosmopolitan Education: Geography and Anthropology -- 8. "The Play of Nature"Human Beings in Kant's Geography1 -- 9. The Pragmatic Use of Kant's Physical Geography Lectures -- 10.The Place of the Organismin Kantian Philosophy: Geography, Teleology, and the Limits of Philosophy -- IV. Kant's Geography of Reason: Reason and Its Spatiality -- 11. Kant's Geography of Reason1 -- 12. Orientation in Thinking: Geographical Problems, Political Solutions1 -- 13. "The Unity of All Places on the Face of the Earth": Original Community, Acquisition, and Universal Will in Kant's Doctrine of Right1 -- V. Gender, Race, History, and Geography -- 14. Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropology and Geography -- 15. Is there Still Room for Freedom?A Commentary on David Harvey's"Kant's Anthropology and Geography" -- 16. Kant's Third Thoughts on Race -- 17. The Darker Side of the Enlightenment: A De-Colonial Reading of Kant's Geography. ; 18. Geography Is to History as Woman Is to Man: Kant on Sex, Race, and Geography: On the way to an Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Perspectives on Kant's teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading Kant's Geography
• ISBN: 1-4384-3606-8; 1-4416-9745-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817539203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.