Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Many Senses of Community in Kant
- 1 Kant's Standpoint on the Whole: Disjunctive Judgment, Community, and the Third Analogy of Experience
- 2 Making Sense of Mutual Interaction: Simultaneity and the Equality of Action and Reaction
- 3 Kant on the Relationship between Autonomy and Community
- 4 Kantian Communities: The Realm of Ends, the Ethical Community, and the Highest Good
- 5 Religion, Ethical Community, and the Struggle against Evil
- 6 Kant's Conception of Public Reason
- 7 Original Community, Possession, and Acquisition in Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
- 8 Community and Normativity: Hegel's Challenge to Kant in the Jena Essays
- 9 Paradoxes in Kant's Account of Citizenship
- 10 Kant's Conception of the Nation-State and the Idea of Europe
- 11 Kant's Parergonal Politics: The Sensus Communis and the Problem of Political Action
- 12 Aesthetic Reflection and Community
- 13 Social Demands: Kant and the Possibility of Community
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
12 - Aesthetic Reflection and Community
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Many Senses of Community in Kant
- 1 Kant's Standpoint on the Whole: Disjunctive Judgment, Community, and the Third Analogy of Experience
- 2 Making Sense of Mutual Interaction: Simultaneity and the Equality of Action and Reaction
- 3 Kant on the Relationship between Autonomy and Community
- 4 Kantian Communities: The Realm of Ends, the Ethical Community, and the Highest Good
- 5 Religion, Ethical Community, and the Struggle against Evil
- 6 Kant's Conception of Public Reason
- 7 Original Community, Possession, and Acquisition in Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
- 8 Community and Normativity: Hegel's Challenge to Kant in the Jena Essays
- 9 Paradoxes in Kant's Account of Citizenship
- 10 Kant's Conception of the Nation-State and the Idea of Europe
- 11 Kant's Parergonal Politics: The Sensus Communis and the Problem of Political Action
- 12 Aesthetic Reflection and Community
- 13 Social Demands: Kant and the Possibility of Community
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
To solve the relationship between the singular and the universal, this kind of dialogue [“a dialogue of cultures”] could make use of Kant's theory of aesthetic judgment, which would understand culture and forms of life as singular experiences that have the pretension or hope of being universally shared.
Juan Christóbal Cruz Revueltas, “Philosophy as a Problem in Latin America”In an essay addressing communities of philosophers outside the European context, Juan Revueltas outlines the difficulties of self-definition and the construction of a uniquely Latin American philosophical community. The problem as he explains it is to find a way between the horns of the dilemma of a colonizing universalism on the one hand and of a “false particularism” on the other. Revueltas argues that in describing or constructing a uniquely Latin American philosophical community it is necessary to avoid the occupation of indigenous communities by dominant European systems, since the latter tend to normalize and mask their own built-in cultural biases via claims to universal validity. His point is backed by a burgeoning literature critiquing the tendency of Western philosophy for its colonization of world philosophical communities and calling on these communities to define themselves.
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- Kant and the Concept of Community , pp. 260 - 283Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011