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Kant, Herder, and the question of philosophical anthropology

2005; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09502360500091360

1470-1308

Simon Swift,

Philosophical Ethics and Theory

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: Notes 1 Allen W. Wood, Kant's Ethical Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Howard Caygill, Art of Judgement (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), Susan Meld Shell, The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1996), John H. Zammito, The Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992), Kant, Herder and the Birth of Anthropology (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2002). See also G. Felicitas Munzel's Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The ‘Critical’ Link of Morality, Anthropology and Reflective Judgement (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1999). For an earlier interest in Kant's anthropology, see in particular Ernst Cassirer, whose work on cultural symbolism seems to be finally gaining the critical attention it deserves. On Kantian anthropology, see in particular ‘Critical idealism as cultural theory’, in Symbol, Myth, and Culture: Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer 1935–1945, ed. Donald Verene (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979). For another forgotten anthropological reading of Kant, see Lucien Goldmann, Immanuel Kant, trans. Robert Black (London: New Left Books, 1971). 2 See in particular McGann's claim that Kant's theory of reflective aesthetic judgement licenses the Romantic ideology by describing poetry as an essentially subjective experience fostering a sense of ‘harmony’ in Social Values and Poetic Acts: The Historical Judgement of Literary Work (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1988). 3 Gayatri Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (New York and London: Routledge, 1993), p. 25. 4 On Herder's metacritique of Kant, see Frederick C. Beiser, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1987). 5 For Kant's own attempts to synthesise the British and German traditions in his Theory of Judgement, see Caygill, Art of Judgement. 6 Immanuel Kant, ‘Reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind’, republished in Kant: Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, (2nd edn, rev.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 201. All further references will be included in the text. 7 Wood, Kant's Ethical Thought, p. 243. Further references will be included in the text. 8 Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 26. All further references will be included in the text. 9 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, ed. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 567 (A598/B26). 10 See in particular the discussion of the ‘character’ of the human understanding in the famous ‘digression’ into theoretical philosophy in Sections 76 and 77 of the Critique of Judgement. 11 Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science, ed. Gary Hatfield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p.106. All further references will be included in the text. 12 Zammito, The Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment, p. 241. 13 Quoted in John Mee, Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 2.