COSMOPOLITICS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A FUTURE; ED. BY DIANE MORGAN

## Index vi Contents vii out from a reflection on the conditions of early modern philosophical thought, he contrasts Hobbes' political theory with Spinoza's, providing en route a sense of how, from early on, economic liberalism was faced with emancipatory challenges whose force and urgency have not diminished. Jill Marsden's chapter on the cosmo-body-politic concentrates on how Daniel Schreber's reflections on his mental illness provide a way of thinking the integration of the human with the extra-human. This exploration of the cosmic positioning of reflection connects Schreber with the Nietzschean investigation of the 'will to power'. Marsden's reflection on organs and bodies presents an alternative to conventional philosophy that provides a vista on politics quite different even from that of Evans, at the same time indicating a conception of the cosmic that rivals the alternatives set out by Diane Morgan and Howard Caygill in Part IV. Part III introduces three key topics which influence the shape, dimension and limits of cosmopolitical thinking. These are the nation, the world state and displaced persons. Daniel S. Malachuk reactivates an often-overlooked version of nineteenth-century nationalism, one which scuppers the oversimplified opposition between an affiliation to a particular nation and a wider allegiance to humanity conceived of as a whole. He thereby refloats the notion of a 'nationalist cosmopolitanism'. This interesting term could provide a more fertile and sympathetic ground for understanding recently emerged nation-states in, and on the edge of, 'New Europe' than the usual disdain for nationalism as irrational backwardness. However, it also implies limits and obligations which would have to restrain an unbridled and unprincipled patriotism. John S. Partington gives us a clear exposition of H. G. Wells' blueprint for a world state which endorses and upholds human rights. In his 1904/5 A Modern Utopia, Wells had already made clear that, for him, the future will be global and that, in his eyes, individual nation-states will necessarily be superseded by the one world state. Wells would thus disagree with the views of Mazzini, Eliot, Whitman and Renan explored by Malachuk. His endorsement of a world state also provides a counterpoint to Kant's views on the subject. Kant rejected the idea of a world republic or of a world monarchy in favour of a 'federation of free states'. His fear would seem to have been that any sort of global state would lead to despotism because of absolute rule being in the hands of so few. He also perceived a global system as necessarily imposing a monolithic identity on all, thereby crushing the invigorating differences between peoples that he thought so important. In contrast, Wells provides a different viii Outline of the Book Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Parts and Wholes — Kant, Communications, Communities and Cosmopolitics....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Kant’s Logic of Political Transformation....Pages 15-24 Cosmopolitics: Law and Right....Pages 25-39 Imagination and Reason: An Ethics of Interpretation for a Cosmopolitan Age....Pages 40-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Cosmopolitics and Its Sadian Discontents....Pages 69-90 ‘ConcateNations’: Globalisation in a Spinozist Context....Pages 91-117 The Cosmo-Body-Politic....Pages 118-136 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Nationalist Cosmopolitics in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 139-162 Human Rights and Public Accountability in H. G. Wells’ Functional World State....Pages 163-190 Towards a Cosmopolitics of Heterogeneity: Borders, Communities and Refugees in Angelopoulos’ Balkan Trilogy....Pages 191-210 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary on ‘Two Things Fill the Mind ...’....Pages 213-234 Goethe’s ‘Enhanced Praxis’ and the Emergence of a Cosmopolitical Future....Pages 235-255 Back Matter....Pages 256-261 "In 1795 Immanuel Kant proclaimed that the peoples of the earth have entered into a 'universal community'. Since Kant wrote this, the processes of inter-connection between the peoples of the earth has grown even more pronounced, and the notion of 'cosmopolitics' has thus come to seem a defining one for the contemporary age. As such this volume makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates about international law, global ecology and economy, and transnational synergies. The volume is inter-disciplinary and is intended to be a contribution to a debate that crosses borders and disciplines."--Jacket In 1795 Immanuel Kant proclaimed that humans had entered into a 'universal community'. Since then, connections have grown ever more pronounced, with the notion of 'cosmopolitics' defining the modern age. This interdisciplinary volume makes a timely contribution to debates on international law, global ecology and economy and transnational synergies.

This volume provides an inter-disciplinary encounter with the question of cosmopolitics--the notion of a global community and the concomitant problems which the notion carries--contributing to a debate that crosses a number of borders and disciplines.