{"product_id":"negotiating-the-end-of-the-world-kant-schmitt-and-the-global-climate-struggle-hardback-9781509572755","title":"Negotiating the End of the World; Kant, Schmitt, and the Global Climate Struggle (Hardback) 9781509572755","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNegotiating the End of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eKant, Schmitt, and the Global Climate Struggle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClive Hamilton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509572755, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The global backlash against climate policy is fuelled by rising geopolitical discord, illiberalism, and economic nationalism. Hamilton's powerful book provides an unflinching account of the darker intellectual forces that are undermining the liberal international order and threatening the collective fight against global warming.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only does Hamilton compellingly cast international climate politics as mired in a clash of worldviews represented by Kant and Schmitt, he captures the wider rupture between incumbent liberal cosmopolitanism and the insurgent authoritarianism that has arisen to oppose it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Original, ambitious and equally impassioned\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ecologist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A provocative analysis of the struggling international climate negotiations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the headlines, a struggle between two opposing philosophical visions has shaped the course of international efforts to save the planet from global warming. The liberal cosmopolitanism of the great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant has been up against the darker vision of an authoritarian global order of great power rivals developed by Carl Schmitt, 'Crown Jurist of the Third Reich'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClive Hamilton shows how the influence of Schmitt's once-taboo ideas has recently spread around the world – in Trump's America, in Xi Jinping's China, and in Europe with the rise of right-wing populism. His book maps how the actions of these three great powers have defined the course of global climate negotiations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Kantian vision, best represented by the European Union, has common sense on its side – a threat to everyone that can be solved by collective responses. In practice, however, UN agreements have triggered resistance from surging anti-globalist forces influenced by the Nazi jurist's ideas, a world defined by friends and enemies and where weaker states submit to powerful ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the Earth hurtles towards a hot and perilous future, which of these worldviews prevails, Kant's or Schmitt's, could determine humanity's fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Defunct philosophers?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Kant's beautiful vision\u003cbr\u003eCosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003eA league of nations\u003cbr\u003eA digression\u003cbr\u003eSovereignty and the climate\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheric ethics\u003cbr\u003eInterventions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Schmitt and the great powers\u003cbr\u003eSchmitt the Nazi\u003cbr\u003eVolk versus 'humanity'\u003cbr\u003eAgainst liberalism\u003cbr\u003eGroßraum and globalism\u003cbr\u003eNomos of the earth\u003cbr\u003eSchmitt and the climate\u003cbr\u003eConspiratorial thinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Europe, land of Kant\u003cbr\u003eThe Kantian model\u003cbr\u003eThe global climate leader\u003cbr\u003eNeutralization in the EU\u003cbr\u003eThe ghost who walks\u003cbr\u003eVisigrád: Schmitt central?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. United States, in two minds\u003cbr\u003eContending worldviews\u003cbr\u003eThe culture of denial\u003cbr\u003eThe global of global warming\u003cbr\u003eExempting the USA\u003cbr\u003eAn American Großraum?\u003cbr\u003eThe charismatic leader\u003cbr\u003eTrump's Schmitts\u003cbr\u003eSex, gender and climate change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Schmitt fever in China\u003cbr\u003eKant out\u003cbr\u003eSchmitt in\u003cbr\u003eCivil society and NGOs\u003cbr\u003eFrom Großraum to tianxia\u003cbr\u003eEcological civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. The negotiations from Rio to Copenhagen\u003cbr\u003eFrom Rio to Kyoto\u003cbr\u003eThe Byrd-Hagel resolution\u003cbr\u003eThe Kyoto breakthrough\u003cbr\u003eAfter Kyoto\u003cbr\u003eThe Copenhagen debacle\u003cbr\u003eCopenhagen fall-out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Trends and influences\u003cbr\u003eChina: from defence to offence\u003cbr\u003eClimate colonialism and climate justice\u003cbr\u003eThe Russian enigma\u003cbr\u003eThe Greta effect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. From Copenhagen to Paris and after\u003cbr\u003eRealignments\u003cbr\u003eThe 2014 US-China agreement\u003cbr\u003eAt Le Bourget\u003cbr\u003eTop-down versus bottom up\u003cbr\u003eLegally binding versus sovereign\u003cbr\u003eAfter Paris\u003cbr\u003eDubai and the carbon club\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. When Schmitt prevails\u003cbr\u003eA hot world\u003cbr\u003eAdapting\u003cbr\u003eTechnofix\u003cbr\u003eCollapse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The environment [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The environment\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20environment%20%5BRN%5D%22\"\u003eRN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441816695064,"sku":"9781509572755","price":32.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509572755.jpg?v=1785027126","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/negotiating-the-end-of-the-world-kant-schmitt-and-the-global-climate-struggle-hardback-9781509572755","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}