Withdrawal from Immanuel Kant and International Relations

Mark F. N. Franke is a professor in and the Director of the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College and, until recently, was a long-time core faculty member in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, both in London, Ontario, Canada. Franke’s teaching critically engages with cultural, discursive, and ideological formations of subjectivity and social/political relations in worldwide systems, focusing on problems in forced migration, patriarchy, racism, spatial/temporal constructions, mobilities, law, coloniality, citizenship, and governmentality. He is the author of Global Limits: Immanuel Kant, International Relations, and Critique of World Politics (2001) and has published journal articles and book chapters on questions of refugees’ rights, hospitality ethics, politics of movement, politics of critique, neutrality, political geographies of displacement, electronic technologies managing human movement, Indigenous self-determinations in law, and pedagogies of experiential learning. Franke’s current programme of research studies the politics of bicycling, as a form of modernist mobility that opens possibilities in how social spacings are formed, focusing on objectives in feminist politics, queer activism, antiracism, transportation justice actions, decoloniality, environmentalism, and critical movements in architecture.

Part I — Introduction 1. Confronting International Relations with Immanuel Kant Part II — Horizons 2. Silence of the International: Pacts of Perpetual Peace over Kant and IR 3. Return to Kant as a Critique of International Relations: A Copernican Re–revolution for IR Theory Part III — Maneuvers and Ruptures 4. IR Within the Limits of Geo–Anthropology Alone: The Kantian Racisms of the International 5. Conflict of the Masculinities: Kantian Empowerments of the Rights of Some Men to Critique and Explain the World to Everyone Else 6. Critique of the Metaphysics of Cosmopolitan Hospitality in IR: Toward Perpetual Rights to Impose 7. Anthropocene: Aesthetic Idea for Human Purposiveness in International Environmental Politics with Horrifying Aim Part IV — Withdrawals 8. What is Dis–Orientation in Thinking? Sexual Rupture of the Kantian Horizons of IR 9. Possibilities in the Freedom of Choice as Conditioned by the Global Unlimited: A Withdrawal from Kant and IR Part V — Conclusion 10. The Global Unlimited