... at the heart of Walter Benjamin’s early discussion of tradition. His peculiar reference to “Talmudic wit” and to Kant as a tradendum in letters to Scholem, alongside related Jewish sources, and his engagement with Kant in “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy” are used to address these questions. Thus...

... on the recognition that modernist art has become a stand-in for the now-wrecked authority of living nature. Adorno contends that “natural beauty,” as elaborated by Immanuel Kant, is the recognition of that now-lost experience of nature, and that art beauty must be thereby interpreted as becoming the reconstructed...

.... This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace and Arendt’s postwar reflections on the stateless as modern pariahs continue to frame current debates on hospitality, human rights, and responsibility. Without a recognition of our common humanity and shared world, sovereign states will continue to find...

...Ross Wilson This essay examines the significance for Theodor W. Adorno of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics. Adorno's philosophy insists, on the one hand, on truth to objects, while, on the other hand, defending subjective experience against overhasty dismissals of it. Adorno rejects the castigation...

...Justin Neville Kaushall Abstract This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s concept of disinterested contemplation is inadequate because it represses the historical suffering of nature, and thus the aesthetic object’s materiality. It also argues that Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of natural beauty...

...Alexander Kluge; Leslie A. Adelson Abstract The roots of theory lie in the spirit of resistance and “essential powers” that Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant ascribed to human beings. The poetic power of social life seeks and finds counter-algorithmic expression through narrative capacities...

... disruptions to systems that support life on this planet. This article develops an interpretive framework drawn from Hans Blumenberg’s theories of myth and metaphor, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of history to address how Immanuel Kant’s fourth question, “What is the human being?,” has reemerged...

... in it the kind of orientation that Habermas believes his version of secular reason holds in store. The article concludes by showing that Habermas’s thesis that secular reason can survive only in the form of a tradition that reaches back to either Immanuel Kant or David Hume is problematic because it neglects...

... of science by Émile Boutroux’s and Georg Simmel’s lectures on Kant and, in particular, Kantian aesthetics. Form and formation are in the scientific and in the aesthetic context developed against the backdrop of the deficit or even lack of formal organization and, consequently, as a necessary yet contingent...

...Thomas O. Haakenson In the early twentieth century, the German author and philosopher Salomo Friedländer, known as Mynona and especially active in the Berlin dada movement, produced several texts that clarified and revised the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Friedländer's philosophical...

... to morals, eudemonic values refer to Immanuel Kant's notion of “humanity within personhood.” © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 environmental ethics phenomenology of nature environmental aesthetics humanism References Abram David . 2004 . “Reciprocity.” In Rethinking...

...Gertrud Koch The article discusses the notion of “experiment” and relates it—via Immanuel Kant's concept of liveliness, which is a central topos of aesthetic experience—to “animation” in film, insofar as both refer to “life sciences.” Drawing on the example of Sergei Eisenstein's poetics...

... Cassirer’s and Otto’s Philosophies of Myth and Religion The Kantian Philosophy of Religion In the writings of Kant, the topic of religion arises frequently. Kant’s discus- sion of religion can be said to be of a delimitating sort: to fi x the borders of what we can know with the use of reason...

... subjectivation sublime Immanuel Kant Georges Bataille In 1968 the Viennese actionist Günter Brus unsettled the general public by deliberately injuring his own body during the first of his Körperanalyseaktionen (body-analysis actions), titled Der helle Wahnsinn ( Sheer Madness ). Brus’s act of self...

... Immanuel Kant on, an influential strain of philosophical critique considered dissociation from alterity as a prerequisite for human freedom. 2 Liberation, according to this epochal ideal, required severing ties and dependencies as so many instances of heteronomy, including those to a nonhuman world...

...: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 197. 5. Adorno was one of the most Kantian members of the Frankfurt School perhaps as a result of his early indoctrination when he was only fifteen years old to reading Kant’s first critique with Siegfried Kracauer, a family friend fourteen years his senior. Adorno...

.... Eichmann attempted to harmo- nize his unprecedented crimes with classical, Christian, and modern Kant- ian ethical systems. As for the disharmony of his self, he was perfectly at ease, “and as for his conscience, he remembered perfectly well that he would have had a bad conscience only if he had...

... of weakness than to Paul’s heroic suffering. As already emerges from the title Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, Cohen takes as the starting point for his late work Kant’s concept of a “natural” or “general” religion, or simply of a “religion of reason.”6 Unlike Kant, who viewed...

... That Bind . 19. Ingram, Radical Cosmopolitics , 20, 83, 65 . [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Theodor W. Adorno cosmopolitanism solidarity global justice critical theory Immanuel Kant casts a long shadow over contemporary...

... Voltaire, Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant were important figures in his intellectual life. Although “The Earthquake in Chile” takes place in Santiago, the fictional disaster itself is strikingly similar to the famous Lisbon earthquake in 1755.18 Accordingly, the default theodicy motifs from Voltaire’s...