Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials by Szendy Peter

Author:Szendy, Peter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8232-2801-0
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Let us interrupt Kant’s sentence here for an instant. Let us suspend it in order to underline that it is thus thanks to a gaze forged in the disinterested and universalizing aim of the judgment of taste, it is thanks to this aesthetic point of view that a revolution’s movement of worldwide expansion can be envisaged or seen in advance. As is the case here and elsewhere, aesthetics gestures toward politics, while also and almost immediately recalling the philosofictive hypothesis that is now familiar to us; Kant thus goes on (I’m rewinding a bit to reread):

This reveals the prospect of an immeasurable time—provided [my emphasis] at least that there does not … occur a second epoch of natural revolution which will push aside the human race to clear the stage for other creatures [andere Geschöpfe], like that which … submerged the plant and animal kingdoms before human beings ever existed. (Conflict, 304–5)

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.