Includes index.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Foreword -- Preface 3 -- 1. Can Political Philosophy Cope with Globalization? On the antinomies of -- globalist neo-cosmology. 8 -- Suspicion about the moral policy 11 -- The antinomies of rational cosmology 15 -- A cosmopolitan Rule of Law? 21 -- 2. Citizenship, otherness and cosmopolitanism in Kant. 36 -- The Country of Pure Reason and the Faculty of Passages 36 -- The Perpetual Peace: From the ancien r�gime to the "citizen-states" 39 -- Cosmopolitanism and "Constitutional Patriotism" 42 -- 3. Europe as Critical Theory. 48 -- "Sonderweg" and the problematics of European philosophical identity 49 -- Identity is within crisis. Crisis is identity 52 -- Regression and extension: the critical reality of Europe 54 -- 4. The Republic: a moral or a teleological community? Thoughts on integration. 61 -- The French Tradition of the "Citizen's Catechisms" 61 -- A teleological Construction of Law? 67 -- The Reality of Civil Society: Communitarianism and Proceduralization 70 -- 5. Exoticism within. An epistemological inventory. 81 -- The Phylogenetic Phenomenon of "Imagined Communities" 81 -- Some Ideologically and Historically Significant Models 85 -- Identity: Myth and Paradox 91 -- Antonomia and Aporia of Positive Discrimination 94 -- Dissent and Recognition 99 -- Index -- About the Author.