Even though it’s not out for almost a year still, SUNY Press now have a page up for the Reading Kant’s Geography collection Eduardo Mendieta and I edited.

Perspectives on Kant’s teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.

For almost forty years, German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant gave lectures on geography, more than almost any other subject. Kant believed that geography and anthropology together provided knowledge of the world, an empirical ground for his thought. Above all, he thought that knowledge of the world was indispensable to the development of an informed cosmopolitan citizenry that would be self-ruling. While these lectures have received very little attention compared to his work on other subjects, they are an indispensable source of material and insight for understanding his work, specifically his thinking and contributions to anthropology, race theory, space and time, history, the environment, and the emergence of a mature public. This indispensable volume brings together world-renowned scholars of geography, philosophy, and related disciplines to offer a broad discussion of the importance of Kant’s work on this topic for contemporary philosophical and geographical work.

It’s been a long time coming together, but we’re pleased with it. It includes contributions from Michael Church and Charles Withers on the geographical context; Werner Stark (the German editor of the lectures), Olaf Reinhardt and Max Marcuzzi (their English and French translators) on textual issues; Robert Louden, Holly Wilson and David Morris on their relation to anthropology;  Jeff Malpas and Karsten Thiel, Onora O’Neill, Jeff Edwards, David Harvey, Edward Casey, Robert Bernasconi, and Walter Mignolo on political, spatial and racial issues in the lectures. I wrote the introduction and Eduardo wrote a concluding chapter.