Transnational cosmopolitanism : Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Works by Immanuel Kant and W. E. B. Du Bois
Introduction: Taking the Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism Seriously
	Past and Present, Center and Margins, and the Question of Interpretation
	Contributions and Plan of the Book
1 The Limits of Kant\'s Anti-Colonialism and His Philosophy of History
	Colonialism, Race, and Europe
	What Colonialism?
		War, Britain, and the Context of Writing
	Antagonism and Equilibrium
	A Typology of Antagonism
		War and Europe
		Multiplication and Trade
		Multiplication and Hierarchy
		Sense and Sensibility
		Antagonism, Judgment, and Teleology
	Not Philanthropy, but Right
	Conclusion
2 Vertical and Horizontal Readings of Kant\'s Principles
	Neo-Kantians\' Cosmopolitanisms
		Conceptualizing the Transnational within Cosmopolitanism
	A Horizontal and Reciprocal Reading of Kant\'s Spheres of Right
		A Reciprocal Complementarity
		Hospitality
	Conclusion
3 Du Bois and a Radical, Transnational Cosmopolitanism
	Progress Is Regress
	Aesthetics and Politics
		The Politics of Aesthetics
		The Aesthetics of Politics
		Transnationalized Cosmopolitanism
	Du Bois and the Event
		The Pan-African Movement
		The Founding of the UN
		An Appeal to the World
	Toward a Radical Hospitality
	Toward Transnational Cosmopolitanism
	Conclusion
4 Race, Identity, and the Question of Transnational Solidarity in Cosmopolitanism
	Identity, Solidarity, Multiplicity, and the Political Craft
	Black Transnational Subjects
		After Souls
		The Transnationalization of US Space
		Changing Anti-Imperialism and a Radical Cosmopolitanism
		Identity, Subjectivity, and the Transnational
	Transnationalism and Segregation: An Elective Affinity?
	Complicating Identity and Solidarity within Cosmopolitanism
	Conclusion
5 A Transnationally Cosmopolitan Counter-Public
	An Anti-Colonial Transnational Counter-Public
	The Structural Transformation of the Transnational Public Sphere
		Diagnostic Function
		Connective Function
		Political Activation Function
		Counter-Sovereign Function
	Transnational Counter-Publics and the Politics of Empire
	Conclusion
Conclusion: The Promise of a Transnational Cosmopolitanism
	The Good, the Bad, and the Hospitable
	Global Justice in a Transnational Lens
	Western Crisis in a Transnational Lens
References
Index