"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.
General
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2013 |
| First published: |
September 2013 |
| Authors: |
Peter Szendy
|
| Translators: |
Will Bishop
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-5550-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8232-5550-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780823255504 |
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