ABSTRACT
This book shows how the flawed orientation forming Immanuel Kant’s philosophical project is the same from which the discipline of International Relations (IR) becomes possible and appears necessary.
Tracing how core problems in Kant’s thought are inescapably reproduced in IR, this book demonstrates that constructive critique of IR is impossible through mere challenge to its Kantian traditions. It argues that confrontation with the Kantian character of IR demands fundamental withdrawal from their shared aims. Investigating the global limits inherent to epistemological and ontological commitments of Kant’s writings and IR, this interdisciplinary study interrogates the racism, sexism, coloniality, white male privilege, and anthropocentricism of both as sites from which such withdrawal may be initiated. Following queer and feminist examinations of how Kant and IR discipline a joint orientation through sex, gender, and sexuality, it indicates how withdrawal is possible. And, considering how Anishinaabe legal tradition opens freedom beyond the restricting horizons of Kant and IR, this book contemplates withdrawal from both as leading to a global unlimited.
An essential text for advanced undergraduate and graduate studies, this book will also be of strong interest to those studying the thinking and writings of Kant, neo- and post-Kantian scholarship, and IR theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|18 pages
Introduction
part II|56 pages
Horizons
chapter 3|35 pages
Return to Kant as a Critique of International Relations
part III|110 pages
Manoeuvres and Ruptures
chapter 764|28 pages
International Relations within the Limits of Geo-Anthropology Alone
chapter 5|27 pages
Conflict of the Masculinities
chapter 6|25 pages
Critique of the Metaphysics of Cosmopolitan Hospitality in IR
chapter 7|28 pages
Anthropocene
part IV|52 pages
Withdrawals
chapter 1868|28 pages
What is Dis-Orientation in Thinking?
chapter 9|22 pages
Possibilities in the Freedom of Choice as Conditioned by the Global Unlimited
part V|7 pages
Conclusion