Beschreibung:
The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant's pioneering work on the philosophy of history.
Introduction: history as philosophy Amélie Rorty and James Schmidt; Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim Immanuel Kant; 1. Teleology and history in Kant Henry E. Allison; 2. The purposive development of human capacities Karl Ameriks; 3. Reason as a species characteristic Manfred Kuehn; 4. Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability Jerome Schneewind; 5. The unsociable sociability of human nature Allen Wood; 6. The crooked timber of mankind Paul Guyer; 7. A habitat for humanity Barbara Herman; 8. Cosmopolitanism and the final end of history Pauline Kleingeld; 9. The hidden plan of nature Eckart Förster; 10. Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of origins Genevieve Lloyd; 11. Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history Terry Pinkard; 12. Philosophy helps history Rüdiger Bittner; Bibliography; Index of names and works.