Kant on the Frontier : : Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth / / Geoffrey Bennington.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Bennington, Geoffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Lit Z
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being-often violently-challenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders.The frontier is the very element of Kant's thought yet the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontier's complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kant's most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace.Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Pre-liminary -- Prolegomena -- 1. The End of Nature -- 2. The Return of Nature -- 3. Rest in Peace -- Interlude: The Guiding Thread (on Philosophical Reading) -- 4. Radical Nature -- 5. The Abyss of Judgment -- Finis -- Appendix: On Transcendental Fiction (Grenze and Schranke) -- Index