Kant, Race, and Racism: Understanding and Reckoning

The issue of race appears at various points in Kant’s writing. He dedicated three essays to developing a theory of human races in 1775, 1785, and 1788. He made racist remarks in those and many other texts. The issue of race and racism in Kant’s work gained renewed attention in the wake of the post-Floyd “Black Lives Matter” movement in 2020. It is not enough simply to acknowledge that Kant held racist views. Nor should it be taken for granted that we can insulate the supposed “core” of Kant’s philosophy from those views. We need to explore the possibility that those views may be integral to Kant’s entire philo sophical system. If it turns out that “race” is more central to Kant’s thought than previ ously assumed, we need to figure out how to reckon with the effects of his race thinking. The contributions contained in this volume investigate these pressing issues.

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Gabriele Gava, Huaping Lu-Adler, Achim Vesper, Introduction
Andree Hahmann, Universalism and racism in Kant’s critical philosophy
Christel Fricke, Kant’s normative moral theory: Apparent moral universalism and the challenge of persistent structural racism
Jelena Govedarica, Milica Smajevic Roljic, A non-racist reading of Kant’s thoughts on race
Valentina Dafne De Vita, Jessica Segesta, Teleology and racism: Is Kant the pioneer of “scientific racism”?
Marina Martínez Mateo, Heiko Stubenrauch, Teleological judgment between racism and its critique: On the status of race in Kant’s work
Jordan Pascoe, Juridical and colonial racisms: On Kant’s modern/colonial gender system
David Baumeister, Kant and environmental racism

Lex Academic Essay Prize
Eleonora Volta, From silencing to extracted testimony in trials for gender-based violence: A performative approach to ideological oppression

Varia

Giulia Beltritti, Ripensare la giustizia transgenerazionale attraverso l’immaginazione morale e l’esperienza estetica. L’utilitarismo di R.M. Hare come chiave interpretativa dei doveri nei confronti delle generazioni future
Riccardo Fedriga, Camilla Domenella, Margherita Mattioni, Oggetti intenzionali come oggetti informativi. Documenti d’archivio, repertori di concetti e istruzioni per l’uso
Pietro Kobau, Mezzo opaco, mezzo trasparente – Redux
Enrico Palma, L’ermeneutica proustiana di Maurizio Ferraris. Un confronto critico
Kristupas Sabolius, Forget the environment, imagine with milieu
Giulio Sacco, Il paradosso della finzione: Un nuovo ruolo per un antico dilemma

Recensioni

Mohaddeseh Rabbaninia, L’amore come libertà umana di Paul A. Kottman