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Kant on the frontier : philosophy, politics, and the ends of the earth
- Title
- Kant on the frontier : philosophy, politics, and the ends of the earth / Geoffrey Bennington.
- Author
- Bennington, Geoffrey
- Publication
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 227 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being-often violently-challenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders. The frontier is the very element of Kant's thought yet the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontier's complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kant's most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace. Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.
- Series Statement
- Lit Z
- Uniform Title
- Frontières kantiennes. English
- Lit z.
- Alternative Title
- Frontières kantiennes.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pre-liminary -- Prolegomena -- The end of nature -- The return of nature -- Rest in peace -- Interlude: the guiding thread (on philosophical reading) -- Radical nature -- The abyss of judgment -- Finis -- On transcendental fiction (Grenze and Schranke).
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7297
- ISBN
- 9780823275977
- 0823275973
- 9780823275984
- 0823275981
- LCCN
- 2016050800
- 40027132766
- OCLC
- 961408848
- Author
- Bennington, Geoffrey, author.
- Title
- Kant on the frontier : philosophy, politics, and the ends of the earth / Geoffrey Bennington.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Lit ZLit z.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027132766
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7297