- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agamben as a Reader
-
1 Aristotle -
2 Walter Benjamin -
3 Guy Debord -
4 Michel Foucault -
5 Martin Heidegger -
6 Paul the Apostle -
7 Carl Schmitt -
8 Hannah Arendt -
9 Georges Bataille -
10 Émile Benveniste -
11 Dante Alighieri -
12 Gilles Deleuze -
13 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
14 Friedrich Hölderlin -
15 Franz Kafka -
16 Immanuel Kant -
17 Friedrich Nietzsche -
18 Plato -
19 Plotinus -
20 Marquis de Sade -
21 Baruch Spinoza -
22 Aby Warburg -
23 Theodor W. Adorno -
24 Jacques Derrida -
25 Sigmund Freud -
26 Jacques Lacan -
27 Karl Marx -
28 Antonio Negri -
29 Gershom Scholem -
30 Simone Weil - Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
- Contributors
- Index
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
- Chapter:
- (p.162) 16 Immanuel Kant
- Source:
- Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
- Author(s):
Susan Brophy
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
Agamben’s complicated engagement with Immanuel Kant celebrates the brilliance of the German idealist’s thought by disclosing its condemnatory weight in Western philosophy. Kant was writing in the midst of burgeoning industrial capitalism, when each new scientific discovery seemed to push back the fog of religion in favour of science and reason; meanwhile Agamben’s work develops in concert with the crises of advanced capitalism and borrows significantly from those philosophers who endured the most demoralising upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century. Whatever lanugo Kant was eager for us to shed in the name of individual freedom,1 Agamben sees in this crusade for civic maturity a surprising prescience: ‘[I]t is truly astounding how Kant, almost two centuries ago and under the heading of a sublime “moral feeling,” was able to describe the very condition that was to become familiar to the mass societies and great totalitarian states of our time’ (HS 52). To a remarkable extent, Agamben finds that Kant’s transcendental idealist frame of thought lays the philosophical foundation for the state of exception.
Keywords: Immanuel Kant, Logic, Infancy, Remnant, Destitutent potential
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- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agamben as a Reader
-
1 Aristotle -
2 Walter Benjamin -
3 Guy Debord -
4 Michel Foucault -
5 Martin Heidegger -
6 Paul the Apostle -
7 Carl Schmitt -
8 Hannah Arendt -
9 Georges Bataille -
10 Émile Benveniste -
11 Dante Alighieri -
12 Gilles Deleuze -
13 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
14 Friedrich Hölderlin -
15 Franz Kafka -
16 Immanuel Kant -
17 Friedrich Nietzsche -
18 Plato -
19 Plotinus -
20 Marquis de Sade -
21 Baruch Spinoza -
22 Aby Warburg -
23 Theodor W. Adorno -
24 Jacques Derrida -
25 Sigmund Freud -
26 Jacques Lacan -
27 Karl Marx -
28 Antonio Negri -
29 Gershom Scholem -
30 Simone Weil - Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
- Contributors
- Index