Note on Sources and Abbreviations
General Introduction
1. The debate continues
2. It is not just about Kant: reconceptualizing his relation to racism
3. Is there really a “contradiction”?
4. Locating Kant's racial views in his system
5. Kant's philosophy and antiracism
6. About the title and plan of this book
Part I Reframe the Discourse
Chapter 1 Whence Comes the Contradiction? -Reconsider the Place of Race in Kant's System
1. Introduction
2. Arguing from an assumed contradiction: a literature review
3. Racism and Kant's moral universalism: a noncontradictory pairing
4. From what nature makes of man to what man can make of himself: raciology in Kant's system
4.1. Physical geography as the original home of racialism
4.2. Racist upshot in pragmatic anthropology
5. Three levels of discourse: pure morals, anthropology, and geography
6. Conclusion
Chapter 2 “Racism” in What Sense?-Reconceptualize Kant's Relation to Racism
1. Introduction
2. Characterizations of Kant's “racism”: a preliminary overview
3. Which “racism”?-in search of a better way to conceptualize Kant's relation to racism
3.1. How interpreters of Kant have conceptualized racism
3.2. How some race theorists have analyzed 'racism'
4. Kant and the racist-ideological formation
5. Conclusion
Part II Seeing “Race”
Chapter 3 Investigating Nature under the Guidance of Reason-Kant's Approach to “Race” as a Naturforscher
1. Introduction
2. Race from the standpoint of a Naturforscher: a sketch of Kant's view
3. Commitments of a Naturforscher: some telling clues in Kant's early works
4. A theory of hypothesis for the Kantian Naturforscher
5. Interlude: Kant's methodological turn after his first essay on race
6. The influence of reason on the investigation of nature: unity and teleology
6.1. Systematic unity and regulative principles of reason in the first Critique
6.2. Kant on the use of teleological principles in the 1788 essay on race
7. A teleological-mechanical mode of explanation: how the third Critique solidifies Kant's race theory
8. Conclusion
Chapter 4 From Baconian Natural History to Kant's Racialization of Human Differences-A Study of Philosophizing from Locations of Power
1. Introduction
2. Francis Bacon, the Royal Society, and a global data production
2.1. Bacon and the program of natural history
2.2. Boyle and a scientific attention to skin color
3. The beginning of a paradigm shift: Linnaeus's Systema Naturae and human varieties
4. Buffon: scientific monogenesis, degeneration, and the problem of slavery
4.1. Buffon on natural history, with a critique of the Linnaean taxonomy
4.2. Mapping human “varieties,” with passing remarks on slavery
4.3. Climate, moule interieur, and degeneration: Buffon's scientific monogenism
4.4. Degeneration and human perfectibility: an entanglement of theory and practice
5. Going beyond Buffon: Kant on “race,” monogenesis, and slavery
5.1. Kant's Naturgeschichte and a new model of monogenesis
5.2. Kantian monogenism, human progress, and racial slavery
6. Conclusion
Part III A Worldview Transformed by “Race”
Chapter 5 What is Seen Cannot Be Unseen-What Kant Can(not) Tell Us about Racial (Self-)Perceptions
1. Introduction
2. From race concepts to racial ideology
3. Kant on abstraction, or why it is so hard to unsee race
4. Kleist: “Kant crisis” and the tragic trap of racialization
5. William der Neger: the double consciousness of a “Negro”
6. Conclusion
Chapter 6 Race and the Claim to True Philosophy-Kant and the Formation of a Exclusionary History of Philosophy
1. Introduction
2. Eclecticism, system making, and critique: competing ways of philosophizing
2.1. Eclecticism versus dogmatic systematization: an eighteenth-century debate
2.2. Kant on the “eye of true philosophy”: systematicity with a worldly orientation
3. Beholding the history of philosophy with a true philosophical eye
3.1. The Kantian rational history of philosophy
3.2. From Brucker's historia to Kant's Geschichte of philosophy
4. Kant on the origin of “true philosophy”: toward a racially exclusionary history of philosophy
5. Conclusion
A Forward-Looking Conclusion
1. Kant as a scholar and as an educator: how I have interpreted his relation to racism
2. How we move forward with Kant's philosophy: some programmatic ideas
2.1. Normative reorientation and standpoint awareness: the work of a liberal Kantian scholar
2.2. Students as situated meaning makers: the work of a liberal Kantian educator
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
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7 有用 Walt 2024-09-11 10:03:42 德国
诚如作者所言,这本书是为康德专家们而写的,我大体上认同她的自我判断,但还是觉得哪怕不是康德专家而只是对康德有一定兴趣的人也值得一读。她根本上不是在谈“康德是不是种族主义者”,她关心的是“康德实际上如何看待人种”以及“康德在后世的种族主义话语与当代西方哲学歧视性教育当中扮演了何种角色”。她基本完成了她为自己设定的工作,最大的不足或许是尽管她非常希望通过这本书来反思西方的哲学教育当前的偏颇与不足,但却... 诚如作者所言,这本书是为康德专家们而写的,我大体上认同她的自我判断,但还是觉得哪怕不是康德专家而只是对康德有一定兴趣的人也值得一读。她根本上不是在谈“康德是不是种族主义者”,她关心的是“康德实际上如何看待人种”以及“康德在后世的种族主义话语与当代西方哲学歧视性教育当中扮演了何种角色”。她基本完成了她为自己设定的工作,最大的不足或许是尽管她非常希望通过这本书来反思西方的哲学教育当前的偏颇与不足,但却因为只关注【当代美国】的情况而甚少探讨康德与后康德哲学之间的关键体系性关联,所以在这一块缺乏决定性的说服力。尽管我同情她这方面的判断,但她确实需要给出更多说明才行。我在阅读时再次体验到好的康德研究必须在思路上逐渐靠近黑格尔的康德批判,推荐不妨带着这个思路去阅读该书(尽管它仍不够接近黑格尔)。 (展开)
0 有用 律舟圆 2025-01-24 01:45:39 美国
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