In 1795 Immanuel Kant proclaimed that the peoples of the earth have entered into a "universal community". Since Kant wrote this the processes of inter-connection between the peoples of the earth has grown even more pronounced and the notion of "cosmopolitics" has thus come to seem a defining one for the contemporary age. As such this volume makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates about international law, global ecology and economy and transnational synergies. The volume is inter-disciplinary and is intended to be a contribution to a debate that crosses borders and disciplines.

About the Author(s)

By Diane Morgan and Gary Banham

DIANE MORGAN is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at University College, Northampton. GARY BANHAM is Reader in Transcendental Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.

Table of Contents

Cosmopolitics: Law and Right--G.Banham * Kant and the Cosmic Body--H.Caygill * ConcateNations: Globalization in a Spinozist Context--Y.Citton * Cosmopolitic and its Sadian Discontents--M.Evans * 'A New Phase of Evolution': Boff on the Evolution of the Global--A.Guilherme * Nationalist Cosmopolitics in the 19th Century--D.S.Malachuck * The Cosmic Body in Nietzsche and Schreber--J.Marsden * Goethe's 'Enhanced Praxis' and the Emergence of a Cosmopolitical Future--D.Morgan * Carl Schmitt: De-Politicization and the Globalization of War--M.Price * Towards a cosmopolitics of Heterogeneity--L.Thomassen