Reading Kant after Mbembe. The Critique of Black Reason as an answer to Modern Philosophy

Authors

  • Laura Herrero Olivera Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2022.v10n1.p139

Keywords:

Race, Colonialism, Slavery, Black reason

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on Mbembe’s critics to Kant, as the archetype of Modern Philosophy, and on the title Critique de la raision négre, with the aim to understand the review and critics to the racial difference proposed by the European Modern Philosophers. The paper focuses on the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘black race’ as presented in Kant. I question how to read Kant nowadays taking into account his race theory and the critics to the colonialism in his last period.

Author Biography

  • Laura Herrero Olivera, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    Laura Herrero Olivera teaches History of Modern Philosophy at UNED (National Distance Education University in Spain) and is member of the Feminist Research Centre at Universidad Complutense (Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas at the Universidad Complutense). She holds a PhD from Universidad Complutense, Madrid. During the research period for her PhD she got a one-year long fellowship from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung for her research at the University of Tübingen, and she completed her PhD with a one-year-long research stay at the Freie University of Berlin. She has translated Onora O’Neill’s book Justice across boundaries: Whose obligations? into Spanish. Her latest publications on Kant are the article “Kant and other rational beings. The perspective of the inhabitants of the planets”, and “The usucaption as a way of acquisition in benefit of existence”, both in Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy. She is currently working on the publication of a book on the unity of reason in Kant to be published by REK. This paper has been part of her research into the project led by Alba M. Jiménez Rodríguez, “Transcendental Deduktion of the Categories: New Perspectives” (UCM-CAM, https://proyectodeduktion.com/).

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Published

2022-07-15

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)

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Reading Kant after Mbembe. The Critique of Black Reason as an answer to Modern Philosophy. (2022). Kantian Studies (EK), 10(1), 139. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2022.v10n1.p139