Abstract

This chapter explores Kant's thoughts about extraterrestrials. It suggests that Kant's speculations are directly and structurally linked to the cosmopolitical stakes of his thinking-in other words, to what we would refer today as globalization. It further argues that only by surveying the spatial conquests of our time and following Carl Schmitt in deciphering the international treaties that regulate the exploration of celestial bodies will we be able to understand Kant's cosmopolitics and its indissociable cosmological resonances.

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