Description
Book SynopsisThis 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, consid
Table of Contents
Part I — Introduction 1. Confronting International Relations with Immanuel Kant Part II — Horizons 2. Silence of the International: Pacts of Perpetual Peace over Kant and IR 3. Return to Kant as a Critique of International Relations: A Copernican Re–revolution for IR Theory Part III — Maneuvers and Ruptures 4. IR Within the Limits of Geo–Anthropology Alone: The Kantian Racisms of the International 5. Conflict of the Masculinities: Kantian Empowerments of the Rights of Some Men to Critique and Explain the World to Everyone Else 6. Critique of the Metaphysics of Cosmopolitan Hospitality in IR: Toward Perpetual Rights to Impose 7. Anthropocene: Aesthetic Idea for Human Purposiveness in International Environmental Politics with Horrifying Aim Part IV — Withdrawals 8. What is Dis–Orientation in Thinking? Sexual Rupture of the Kantian Horizons of IR 9. Possibilities in the Freedom of Choice as Conditioned by the Global Unlimited: A Withdrawal from Kant and IR Part V — Conclusion 10. The Global Unlimited
