Cosmopolitan Patriotism Educated Through Kant and Walt Whitman

Pradeep A. Dhillon

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-30430-4_6

Cosmopolitan Patriotism Educated Through Kant and Walt Whitman

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Abstract

Kantian cosmopolitanism has often been criticized for professing the view from nowhere. More significantly, it is often opposed to love of country. In this chapter, drawing on recent scholarship on the topic, I will challenge this view of Kant’s theory of cosmopolitanism. Kant’s normative philosophy, I will argue, offers a moral response to the problem in ways that should resonate strongly within contemporary global/national contexts. Furthermore, through a reading of Whitman’s “Passage to India,” I suggest that he offers us a pedagogy of cosmopolitan patriotism which is remarkably relevant today. In making this argument, I will draw on Cora Diamond to argue for the presence of serious thought in poetry and of poetic imagination in philosophy.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Cosmopolitanism
Subtitle of host publication	Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
Editors	Marianna Papastephanou
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Chapter	6
Pages	89-103
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30430-4_6
State	Published - May 6 2016

Publication series

Name	Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
Volume	9
ISSN (Print)	2214-9759
ISSN (Electronic)	2214-9767

Keywords

moral imagination
fellow citizen
moral thinking
global justice
productive imagination

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Cosmopolitan Patriotism Educated Through Kant and Walt Whitman. / Dhillon, Pradeep A.

Cosmopolitanism: Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives. ed. / Marianna Papastephanou. Springer International Publishing, 2016. p. 89-103 (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education; Vol. 9).

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