Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History: Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx

by Real Fillion

Overview

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 the task of the speculative philosophy of history as it had been understood by German philosophy: the articulation and understanding the historical process as a developmental whole. Fillion's interpretation engages many recent strands of social and political thought in order to provide a new understanding of current events, and possible futures, grounded in the understanding of the dynamics of the past and the present provided by Kant, Hegel, and Marx. The result is a rich and timely answer to the question of where our world is headed today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776618289
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	02/28/2008
Series:	Philosophica
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	186
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Réal Fillion is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury.
Dr. Réal Fillion, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury, specializes in Contemporary French Philosophy; Ethics; and Philosophy of History. In addition to his teaching and research, he sits on various boards and committees, for example, he is a member of the University of Sudbury Senate, the Laurentian University Senate, the Faculty Affairs Committee, the Bursary Committee, the Community Engagement Committee, the University of Sudbury Board Ad Hoc Committee on Language and Culture, and currently participates on the selection committee for the new faculty position for the department of Culture and communication. Réal Filion published two additional titles at the University of Ottawa Press: La dynamique multiculturelle et les fins de l'histoire (2009), and Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom (2012)

Table of Contents

Preface iii Introduction: Where Are We Headed? 1 PART I: ONE WORLD Chapter 1: Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View 21 Chapter 2: Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal 39 PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF RECOGNITION Prologue: Hospitality—Conditional and Unconditional 61 Chapter 3: Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Familiarities 69 Chapter 4: Hegel, The Particularity of Conflicts, and the Spaces of "Reason-ability" 87 PART III: THE BASIC STRUGGLE Chapter 5: Marx, Productive Forces, and History 107 Chapter 6: The Biopolitical Production of the Common 125 Conclusion: The Dynamic Telos of History — A Shared Democratic World 143 Works Cited 151