Kant and Hegel on Aesthetic Reflexivity

Goffman, Action, and Risk Society: Aesthetic Reflexivity in Late Modernity

When I decided to write about edgework over twenty-five years ago, I had no idea that I had put myself on a pathway of sustained engagement with one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. As an academic sociologist in the early stages of my career, I felt that I had a good general understanding of Erving Goffman’s most important ideas and a proper appreciation of his uniqu...

Real Repugnance and our Ignorance of Things-in-Themselves: A Lockean Problem in Kant and Hegel

Kant zufolge muss ein Subjekt, um Wissen von einem Objekt zu erlangen, in der Lage sein zu „beweisen“, dass das Objekt real möglich sei, d.h. zu beweisen, dass es zwischen seinen Eigenschaften weder eine logische Inkonsistenz noch einen „realen Widerspruch“ gebe. Dies ist zwar (gewöhnlich) einfach im Hinblick auf empirische Objekte, aber im Hinblick auf einzelne Dinge an sich selbst (gewöhnlich...

Kant on the normativity of taste: The role of aesthetic ideas

Hegel on Represent Ation and Thought

Hegel On Secularity And Consummated Religion

The relation of religion to secular order has once more assumed centre stage in the renewed conflict between secular democracies and a traditional religiosity turned fiercely political. The extreme development of the former had seen politics represented as the only true redemption and religion condemned as the malaise of self-alienated humanity, to be purged altogether or rendered subordinate t...

Spinoza and Kant on Suicide

In this paper I’m going to argue that both, Spinoza and Kant, construct the argument “for the impossibility of self-destruction” and examine how the concept of suicide relates to the concept of humanity in both philosophers. I will argue that Kant’s and Spinoza’s argument for the impossibility of self-destruction follows from the “external cause” premise and not from “the same subject” premise....