Constructivism in cosmopolitan law

Kant’s right to visit

Bibliographic Data

ID13008985
AuthorsClaudio Corradetti (0000-0002-4770-8140, European University of Rome, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume6
Issue3
Pages412-441
Publication date2017-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Constitutionalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2045-3817 • E-ISSN: 2045-3825
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s2045381717000028
OpenAlexW2605647407
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

Kant is regarded as one of the most influential cosmopolitan thinkers. Indeed his legacy still influences the contemporary legal and philosophical debate on this issue. But what is the Kantian conception of cosmopolitan law? In which terms does it arise out of his notion of a ‘right to visit’? How does it contribute to the construction of a ‘cosmopolitan constitution’? In this article the view is advanced that Kant was a legal constructivist. The argument assumes also that within Kant’s view of an ‘original community of interaction’, the justification of a cosmopolitan notion of authority allows exercises of freedom under a general scheme of right. Kant’s ‘cosmopolitan constitution’ depends therefore upon such rationale, as well as on the jurisdictional link that the right to visit determines in allowing individuals with the possibility to have a ‘place on earth’

Argument (complex analysis · Constitution · Constructivism (international relations · Cosmopolitanism · Epistemology · International relations · Political science · Sociology · Corporate Law and Human Rights · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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