New release: Kant and the Concept of Community. Edited by Charlton Payne and Lucas Thorpe
20. May 2011
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011. (North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy Series, 9.)
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with contributions by 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
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. (editor)
With (among others):
- Charlton Payne, Lucas Thorpe: “Introduction: The Many Senses of Community in Kant,” 1-16.
- Charlton Payne: “Kant’s Parergonal Politics,” 245-259.
Charlton Payne is a postdoctoral fellow at Plattform Weltregionen und Interaktionen, Universität Erfurt, Germany. He worked on this volume during his stay at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz.