Territorial rights are often perceived to create barriers and discriminate against the poor. This study challenges that notion by re-examining the cosmopolitan understanding of territory. It addresses issues from the right to vote, the right to exclude others to the legitimacy of territorial boundaries and the exploitation of natural resources.

Territorial rights are often perceived to create barriers and discriminate against the poor. This study challenges that notion by re-examining the cosmopolitan understanding of territory. It addresses issues from the right to vote, the right to exclude others to the legitimacy of territorial boundaries and the exploitation of natural resources.

To what extent is our own (political) practice based on transcendence, and what meaning do we attribute to inaccessible transendence in our human condition? This volume explores these questions in Kant s political and religious philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective (philosophy, political science, theology), thus reaching beyond Kantian philosophy."