Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions

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KANT IN THE LAND OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS PETER SZENDY COSMOPOLITICAL PHILOSOFICTIONS KANT IN THE LAND OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS Translated by Will Bishop FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS )) NEW YORK )) 2013 Copyright © 2013 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. This work was originally published in French as Peter Szendy, Kant chez les extraterrestres: Philosofictions cosmopolitiques © 2011 Les Editions de Minuit. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Ministère français chargé de la Culture– Centre National du Livre. This work has been published with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture–National Center for the Book. Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien des Programmes d’aide à la publication de l’Institut Français. This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from the Institut Français. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Szendy, Peter. [Kant chez les extraterrestres. English] Kant in the land of extraterrestrials : cosmopolitical philosofictions / Peter Szendy ; translated by Will Bishop. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8232-5549-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8232-5550-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804. 2. Cosmopolitanism. 3. Science fiction— Philosophy. I. Title. B2799.C82S9413 2013 193—dc23 2013015250 Printed in the United States of America 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Áginak (“il y a dans notre imagination un effort pour progresser vers l'infini”) és Karcsinak (“…és megmutatta mesebeli kincsét/ az őszi égbolton a tiszta holdat”) ...