This is the first book dedicated to a systematic exploration of Kant's position on colonialism. Bringing together a team of leading scholars in both the history of political thought and normative theory, the chapters in the volume seek to place Kant's thoughts on colonialism in historical context, examine the tensions that the assessment of colonialism produces in Kant's work, and evaluate the relevance of these reflections for current debates on global justice andthe relation of Western political thinking to other parts of the world.

Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi: Introduction: Kant on colonialism: apologist or critic?; 1 Anthony Pagden: The Law of continuity: colonies, provinces and the justice of war within the limits of Kant's International Right; 2 Pauline Kleingeld: Kant's second thoughts on colonialism; 3 Sankar Muthu: Productive resistance in Kant's political thought: domination, counter-domination, and global unsocial sociability; 4 Lea Ypi: Commerce and colonialism in Kant's philosophy of history; 5 Liesbet Vanhaute: Colonists, traders or settlers? Kant on fair international trade and legitimate settlement; 6 Arthur Ripstein: Kant's juridical theory of colonialism; 7 Peter Niesen: Restorative justice in international and cosmopolitan law; 8 Anna Stilz: Provisional right and non-state peoples; 9 Martin Ajei and Katrin Flikschuh: Colonial mentality: Kant's hospitality right then and now; Index