Kant and the Concept of Community

The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason; the community of substances in the third analogy; the realm of ends as an ethical community; the state and the public sphere as political communities; the sensus communis of the Critique of Judgment; and the idea of the church as a religious community in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Given Kant's status as a systematic philosopher, volume editors Payne and Thorpe maintain that any examination of the concept of community in one area of his work can be understood only in relation to the others. In this volume, then, scholars from different disciplines -- specializing in various aspects of and approaches to Kant's work -- offer their interpretations of Kant on the concept of community. The various essays further illustrate the central relevance and importance of Kant's conception of community to contemporary debates in various fields.


Contributors: Ronald Beiner, Jeffrey Edwards, Michael Feola, Paul Guyer, Jane Kneller, Béatrice Longuenesse, Jan Mieszkowski, Onora O'Neill, Charlton Payne, Susan M. Shell, Lucas Thorpe, Eric Watkins, Allen W. Wood

Details

First Published: 30 Apr 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781580463874
Pages: 328
Size: 9 x 6
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy
BIC Class: HP

Details updated on 19 May 2013

Contents

• 1  Introduction: The Many Senses of Community in Kant
• 2  Kant's Standpoint on the Whole (Disjunctive Judgment, Community, and the Third Analogy of Experience)
• 3  Making Sense of Mutual Interaction: Simultaneity and the Equality of Action and Reaction
• 4  Kant and the Ethics of Community: The Metaphysical Roots of Kant's Mature Ethics
• 5  Kantian Communities: The Realm of Ends, the Ethical Community, and the Highest Good
• 6  Religion, Ethical Community and the Struggle Against Evil
• 7  Kant's Conception of Public Reason
• 8  Original Community, Possession, and Acquisition in Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
• 9  Community and Normativity: Hegel's Challenge to Kant
• 10  Paradoxes in Kant's Account of Citizenship
• 11  Kant's Conception of the Nation State and the Idea of Europe Aesthetics
• 12  Kant's Parergonal Poltics: The Sensus Communis and the Problem of Political Action
• 13  Aesthetic Feflective Judgments and Social Reflective Judgments
• 14  Social Demands: Kant and the Possibility of Communicative Communities