Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History : Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx / / Real Fillion.

• Author: Fillion, Real Robert, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press,, 2008.; ©2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophica,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: ""Where are we headed?"" Grounding his answer in the twin observations that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural and increasingly unified, Fillion reasserts

Table of Contents

Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Where Are We Headed?; PART I: ONE WORLD; Chapter 1: Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View; Chapter 2: Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal; PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF RECOGNITION; Prologue: Hospitality-Conditional and Unconditional; Chapter 3: Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Familiarities; Chapter 4: Hegel, The Particularity of Conflicts, and the Spaces of ""Reason-ability""; PART III: THE BASIC STRUGGLE; Chapter 5: Marx, Productive Forces, and History; Chapter 6: The Biopolitical Production of the Common

Conclusion: The Dynamic Telos of History - A Shared Democratic WorldWorks Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y