Another Kant after Fanon and Deleuze
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Kant, Fanon, Deleuze/Guattari, trascendentalityAbstract
Could Kant take on the racism of his universalist morality? Could he measure the historical implication of the exclusion of the "rude men of Tierra del Fuego or New Holand" from any moral, historical and political sphere? Could he face the dictates of empirical science and thus avoid the racist nature of his anthropological and geographical conception? Moved by these questions, we join here the effort to research European philosophers (mainly men) who assign a racist logical configuration to their discourses We will focus on Kant. The resonances between the Fanon´s and Deleuze's (with or without Guatari) writings, constitute for us the motive from which to show racism in Kant philosophy. We think Fanon and Deleuze philosophies reinforced each other when they discuss Kantian transcendental philosophy and its establishment of a regime of onto-anthropological denial based on logical-formal imperatives. In this sense, we will not focus on Kantian anthropology, as it is usual in many essays. On the other hand, we consider that the transcendental condition goes further beyond natural racist conditions, to declare moral rectitude as the exclusive property of white men and, of course, as the historical-cultural referential horizon of one and only one history (History with capital letters).Downloads
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