An interdisciplanary collection of essays focused on Kant's work on the
concept of community.
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 editorsPayne 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.
Charlton Payne is postdoctoral fellow at Plattform Weltregionen und
Interaktionen, Universität Erfurt, Germany. Lucas Thorpe is Assistant
Professor in the Department of Philosophy atBogaziçi University, Turkey.
Contributors: 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
