Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law

Claudio Corradetti is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has been a lecturer at the University of Oslo, Norway and at Karl Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria. In previous years he has been a visiting scholar at McGill University, the University of Oxford, the European University Institute and the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin. In 2019 he was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship at the Philosophy Department, Columbia University, NY.

• Part 1 - Kant and the Legacy of Modernity;1. From Universal Monarchy to Global Authority;2. The Tradition of Internationalist Pacifism before Kant: Utopia or Cosmopolis?;Part 2 ̶ Kant’s Critique of Just War Theory and Colonialism;3. The ‘Sorry Comforters’;4. Kant’s Rejection of Just War Theory;5. Kant on Race and Colonialism;Part 3 – Theory and Practice. The World (State) Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason;6. Freedom, Nature and Right;7. The Illusions of Reason: Freedom as a Regulative Idea of Reason;Part 4 – Juridical Constructivism and the Cosmopolitan Constitution;8. Thinking Political, Thinking Cosmopolitan;9 Constructivism in Cosmopolitan Law: Kant’s Right to Visit;10 Thinking with Kant ‘beyond’ Kant. Actualizing Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Transnational Sphere;Conclusion;

Identified as One of the Most Interesting Publications of 2020 by the International Law Reporter International Law Reporter: Most Interesting 2020: Corradetti, Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law (ilreports.blogspot.com)"…Claudio Corradetti presents us with the legal reasoning behind Kant's writings on international politics. Starting from the emergence of ideas of universal rights and global authority in modern international law, Corradetti gives a masterful account of the origins of Kant's argument in Towards Perpetual Peace (1795)… Not so much a pedagogical endeavour as a rich and somewhat contracted resource, this book turns Kant's 'perpetual peace' into a telescope for observing his broader philosophical universe while making an original contribution to the philosophy of international law and 'global constitutionalism'."Kristoffer Lidén, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Peace Research>Book Notes>Claudio Corradetti (2020) Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law: The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason, by Kristoffer Lidén"Kant or not Kant? Arguing on Kant’s Ultimate Political Design for Global Governance and Cosmopolitanism." An Exchange between Claudio Corradetti and Allen Woodhttps://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista/article/view/571/933"The present study is a comprehensive overview of Kant’s contributions to international law. Combining both historical interpretation and systematic analysis of the relevant notions and assumptions, Corradetti’s work is remarkable in straddling these competing foci while offering a plausible interpretation that is both philosophically interesting and useful, regardless of whether one’s interest in Kant’s theory is systematic or historical. Furthermore, the work not only gives a clear systematic analysis of Kant’s political philosophy, but also grounds this analysis in Kant’s theory of judgement, as we know it from the Critique of Pure Reason and other parts of Kant’s writings that are not primarily concerned with questions of legal and political philosophy. …In sum, this book is a valuable contribution to the current Kant literature for researchers interested in questions of Kant’s cosmopolitanism and constructivism in legal theory as well as teachers looking for a resource to contextualize Kant’s writings against the historical background of natural law theory, particularly with regard to the question of how modern debates around the status of indigenous peoples should be addressed, either when researching or teaching this material."Sebastian Orlander, Kantian Review (2022), 00, 1–4 doi:10.1017/S1369415422000085