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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
... moves through Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment to contend that aesthetic experience as such requires this kind of ecstatic movement. The sociality assembled by aesthetic judgment is an ecstatic, de-structured collectivity. Zong! ’s sensus communis is not an a priori universality...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 187–194.
Published: 01 March 2019
... judgments and ill-conceived solidarity. I went back to my studio and reconstructed “from scratch.” Immanuel Kant suggested that the French Revolution affected the “onlookers” very differently than it did the people of France. Just as I had already done many times before, I destroyed the surface and started...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
...,” to which I humbly respond: “Respect.” 1 Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View , ed. and trans. Robert B. Louden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 15. 2 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (New York: Palgrave...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2024
... from a cultural outside. The African need not stand around waiting for Immanuel Kant. Universalism, rather, is an ineluctable and ineliminable dimension native to all moral argument, without the assumption of which moral argument would not be cognitively coherent, humanly intelligible. This is why...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... A war of this kind . . . must be absolutely prohibited.
—Immanuel Kant
This essay will argue on behalf of two main points; better, call them provocations, because
they are predicated on a future that is starkly evident in some ways but in other ways remains
very much to be seen. The first...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... The unimaginable can be seen as beginning with that which Immanuel Kant seeks to discipline in imagination, “its lawless freedom [that] produces nothing but nonsense.” 18 We can see the disciplining function of Kantian judgment at work in Richard Rorty’s description of imagination “not as a faculty...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
....” 1 This unnamed quality, a capacity to think thoughts and feel emotions, gives humans their dignity and makes them worthy of unique rights. But our capacity to think and feel cannot be explained—at least not yet—based on biology alone. Immanuel Kant accounts for human dignity through the distinctly...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 174–185.
Published: 01 November 2009
... occasion, what is mendacious about my chronology.
I don’t myself accuse Trouillot of lying here. If this review is anything to go by, I doubt he’s
capable of it. In the space of a few short pages, Trouillot manages to mistake the timing of the
4 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 137–147.
Published: 01 November 2009
... order escaped any ban on revolutionary
violence. In point of fact, such revolutionary violence was in this light coherently defended
by contemporary (and otherwise fairly conservative) political theorists such as Denis Diderot,
Immanuel Kant, and G. W. F. Hegel.6 Because Haiti in July 1991...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
... for a new production of knowledge in which poetic expression complemented, yet was also independent from, political action. 2 There are reasons to return to this unconventional and often ignored conference paper that jumps from Immanuel Kant and Charles Baudelaire to Stéphane Mallarmé and Marcel...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
...: Prometheus, 1996), 233. The “passion for gain,” he writes, is “transformed” (read: aggressively increased) by the sea (233). There is a connection here to Immanuel Kant on commerce in his writing on “perpetual peace” and “hospitality.” See Kevin McLaughlin, Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant (Stanford, CA...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Benjamin psychoanalysis Derek Walcott The absolute whole of all appearances—we might thus say— is only an idea ; since we can never represent it in image, it remains a problem to which there is no solution. —Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason In his reading of Walter Benjamin's 1921...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., of Giambatista Vico's New Science (1725; repr., New York: Penguin, 1999), and Immanuel Kant's “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose,” collected in Kant: Political Writings , ed. Hans Reiss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 41–53. 28 See Stephen Bann, Romanticism...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
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ied relations of domination and subordination, even more so as industrialists sought to
reproduce the paternalistic labor dynamics of workshop and factory within the family
Even as women were being idealized, their political power, such as it was, was being
circumscribed
18. Immanuel Kant...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
... could call
“the racial imagination.”8 Sampling the works of Carl von Linné, Georges-Louis Leclerc, the
comte de Buffon, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Johan Friedrich Blumenbach, the editors of
the Encyclopédie (Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d’Alembert), the editors of the Encyclo...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 96–242.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in Camus, but also in Immanuel Kant, discussing freedom as paradoxical. Because there is a sense that you accept that ultimately we're all determined, but the idea of freedom is profoundly necessary and you have to live as though you are free. That is something that attracted me to Kant later on, his...
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