Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Kantian Insights into the Autonomy of Culture -- References -- Chapter 2: Culture and Happiness in Kant -- 1 A Teleological Argument for Morality and Culture -- 1.1 Happiness Is Not the End of Man's Nature -- 1.2 Culture is Nature's End in Man -- 2 Nature's Ultimate End: Culture in the Critique of Judgment -- 2.1 Why Happiness Cannot be Nature's Ultimate End -- 2.2 Culture as Aptitude for All Sorts of Ends and Nature's End -- 3 The Highest Good as Creation's Final End -- 4 The Conflict between Happiness and Culture: And its Possible Resolution -- 4.1 The Conflict between Natural Man and Civilized Man in Providence's Plan -- 4.2 Indirect Happiness -- References -- Chapter 3: Kant's Dual Approach to Culture -- 1 A Genetic Approach to Culture: Culture as Nature's Ultimate End -- 2 A Practical Approach to Culture: The Duty of Improving One's Nature -- 2.1 The Need for Education -- 2.2 The Civilizing Process -- 2.3 Culture and Practical Reason -- 3 Man's Unsociable Sociability -- References -- Chapter 4: Kant on Civilization and Cultural Pluralism -- 1 Civilized and Uncivilized Peoples -- 2 Toward a Universal Civilization? -- 2.1 The Ambivalent Role of Cultural Diversity -- 2.2 The Provisional Character of Cultural Diversity -- 3 Civilization as the Unit of Kant's Philosophy of History -- 4 Civilization, Aesthetics and Morality -- 5 A Kantian Insight for Reconciling Universality and Diversity -- 6 Recovering the Moral Value of Historical Humanity -- References -- Chapter 5: Kantian Philosophy as a Philosophy of Culture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fundamental Notes on the Explicit Concept of Culture -- 3 Another Look at Kant's Genetic Approach to Culture -- 4 Moral Approach to Culture -- 5 Toward a Critical Concept of Culture -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index.