Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1017/S1369415422000371
Rachel E Zuckert
a of of theory and of justice; both a trenchant of Enlightenment liberalism with colonialism and chattel promoter realization of all individuals. and of interpersonal behaviour; above immensely witty conversationalist, dry by a wry sidelong glance, inviting shared
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1017/S136941542200036X
Helga Varden
Abstract In our societies today, the prevalence of serious, untreated trauma means that we cannot reliably expect to receive or give unconditional love, understood as love which functions within a normative framework to protect each and all of us as having dignity. Serious, untreated trauma makes unconditional love (so understood) unreliable because each time the pattern of the psychological damage (trauma) is triggered in the traumatized person, in the wrongdoers or in the bystanders, their behaviour easily becomes self- and other-numbing, destructive and moralizing in an irrational and often self-deceived attempt to preserve or defend themselves or others against forces felt as threatening even though they are not. It is also common for someone who lives in societal conditions where it is impossible to avoid patterned, traumatizing behaviour to experience the emotional temptation to give up on the possibility of a better future for oneself, one’s loved ones or one’s community within the larger community or the state. For some, this is experienced as a draw towards suicide, while others experience it as a serious temptation to give up on working together with the good forces in society. This article seeks to continue Charles Mills’ work on radicalizing Kant by sketching a Kantian account of trauma and thereby develop philosophical resources that can help us fight historical oppression and violence.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1017/S1369415422000346
J. Shorter-Bourhanou
Abstract Immanuel Kant is often interpreted as a universal egalitarian who claims that all people, regardless of their differences, are equal. This view has been challenged by several scholars including Charles Mills and Robert Bernasconi, who note the persistent racist underpinning in Kant’s work; however, the standard reading is that Kant changed his mind about race and eventually reaffirmed his universalism. By considering Charles Mills’ notion of ‘Black Radical Kantianism’, as a way of reinventing Kant, I argue that continued engagement with Kant’s universalism must go hand in hand with recognizing his racism in order to make it truly inclusive.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1017/S1369415422000310
Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Abstract This article shows that the methodology of Mills’ ‘Black Radical Kantianism’ (BRK) represents a major plot twist for Kant studies as well as contemporary political philosophy utilizing Kantian ideas. BRK is no mere upgrade of Kant’s or Kantian ideal theory for racial justice. Mills’ methodology requires us to posit both that the real Kant and establishment Kantianism have been racist, sexist and Eurocentric; and that only by first admitting and reckoning with the compatibility of white supremacy and liberal egalitarianism can we hope to radicalize Kant or Kantianism.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.1017/S1369415422000292
Elvira Basevich
Abstract This article applies Charles W. Mills’ notion of the domination contract to develop a Kantian theory of justice. The concept of domination underlying the domination contract is best understood as structural domination, which unjustifiably authorizes institutions and labour practices to weaken vulnerable groups’ public standing as free, equal and independent citizens. Though Kant’s theory of justice captures why structural domination of any kind contradicts the requirements of justice, it neglects to condemn exploitive gender- and race-based labour relations. Because the ideal of civic equality must position all persons as co-legislators of the terms of political rule, the state must dismantle exploitive race- and gender-based labour relations for all persons to command political power as civic equals.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.1017/S1369415422000334
I. Marwah
Abstract This article examines how Kant’s conceptualizations of natural history and teleological judgement shape his understanding of human difference and race. I argue that the teleological framework encasing Kant’s racial theory implies constraints on the capacity of non-whites to make moral progress. While commentators tend to approach Kant’s racial theory in relation to his political theory, his late-life cosmopolitanism, and his treatments (or non-treatments) of colonialism, empire and slavery, the problem I focus on here is that race is itself only intelligible in relation to a teleological natural history limiting certain races’ capacities to engage in humanity’s moral vocation.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1017/S1369415422000322
F. Kirkland
Abstract This article has two purposes. The first speaks to the compatibilist quality of Charles Mills’ Black Radical Kantianism (BRK), its strengths and weaknesses and the pertinence of W. E. B Du Bois to it. BRK turns from Mills’ previous critique of Kantianism as representative of a rassenstaatlich political liberalism, underwritten and tainted by the racial/domination contract, to his current defence of a compatibilist Kantianism as representative of a rechtsstaatlich political liberalism supported by a non-ideal racially corrective critique of both that contract and the kind of political liberalism affiliated with it. The second focuses on what I introduce as the ‘Radicalization of Kant in Black’ (RKB). RKB is not a compatibilist project. Rather it re-examines issues first posed by ‘slave- and black-encoded’ blacks coming to act and struggle with the primacy of practical reason under the historically normative authority of freedom and the abolition of enslavement. What are the ramifications of each for Kant-/Kantian-radicalization?
本文有两个目的。第一部分论述了查尔斯·米尔斯(Charles Mills)的黑人激进康德主义(BRK)的相容主义性质,它的优缺点以及W. E. B .杜波依斯(W. E. B . Du Bois)对它的针对性。BRK从米尔斯之前对康德主义的批判转向了他现在对康德主义的辩护,他认为康德主义代表了一种被种族/统治契约所担保和玷污的、被种族/统治契约所担保和玷污的、被非理想的种族纠正性批判所支持的、被种族/统治契约及其附属的那种政治自由主义所支持的、兼容主义的康德主义。第二个重点是我所介绍的“黑衣康德的激进化”(RKB)。RKB不是一个兼容的项目。相反,它重新审视了最初由“奴隶和黑人编码”黑人提出的问题,这些黑人在自由和废除奴隶制的历史规范权威下,与实践理性的首要地位进行了行动和斗争。康德激进化和康德激进化的分支是什么?
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