1st Edition
Kantian Citizenship Grounds, Standards and Global Implications
1. Aspects of Kantian Citizenship Sorin Baiasu and Mark Timmons
Part I: The Nature and Grounds of Citizenship
2. Enforcing the Law of Nature: The Background to Kant’s Conception of the Relation between Morality and Recht Paul Guyer
3. Dignity, Human Rights and Citizenship Sorin Baiasu
4. Civic Action, Idealization and Kantian Citizenship Sarah Holtman
Part II: Citizenship and Ethical Commonwealth
5. ‘Counteracting Evil with United Forces’: On Citizenship in a Religious Community with Special Attention to Church Rituals Mark Timmons
6. Kant’s Moral Amphiboly: Ethics, Religion and the Politics of Faith Susan Meld Shell
7. Moses Mendelssohn on Religious Freedom Allen Wood
Part III: Citizenship and Juridical Community
8. Kantian Lessons for Democratic Theory Luigi Caranti
9. The Separation of Powers and the Legitimacy of International Courts: A Kantian View Reidar Maliks
10. Kant’s ‘Unjust Enemy’: Test Case for a ‘Critical Theory of War Today’ Oliver Eberl and Peter Niesen
11. Two Sources of Cosmopolitan Right Peter Niesen
Part IV: Postscript
12. Kant’s View of Citizenship: A Model for the 21st Century? Howard Williams
Biography
Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His work on Kant includes Kant's Doctrine of Virtue: A Guide (2021) and Significance and System: Essays on Kant's Ethics (2017). He is Co-editor with Sorin Baiasu of The Kantian Mind (Routledge, 2024).
Sorin Baiasu is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011) and editor of, among others, Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (2013 – with Mark Timmons) and Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion (2020 – with Alberto Vanzo).
"The papers collected in this volume make much-needed contributions to Kantian scholarship on core questions of citizenship. This volume will have a lasting impact on research on Kant’s legal and political philosophy, and political philosophy more generally, and it is central for anyone working on theories of citizenship from a philosophical perspective."
Sari Kisilevsky, Queens College CUNY, USA
"The contributors to this excellent volume offer nuanced and insightful readings of Kant’s political and legal philosophy while demonstrating its continuing relevance to contemporary questions and projects."
Jon Mandle, University at Albany SUNY, USA
