KANTHROPOLOGY

The 2016 CRMEP graduate conference, a reading group and public lecture series on Immanuel Kant's anthropological writings and their legacy

KEY DATES

November 2015 - May 2016: Reading group
1 February 2016: Deadline for conference abstracts
19-20th May 2016: Graduate conference

http://www.kanthropology.com/

• Critical ‘race’ theory and the Critical Philosophy of ‘race’
• The place of anthropology in Kant's critical project
• Anthropology, psychology and Foucault
• The troubled legacy of Enlightenment philosophy with respect to its racial, colonial and gendered biases
• Kant and Human Rights Discourse
• Ontology contra anthropology
• The empirical subject vs. the transcendental subject
• Ideology and History in Kant
• The idea of the 'canon' in Modern European Philosophy
• Anti-humanism and/or Post-humanism.
• Existential anthropology and/or relational humanism.
• The philosophical elucidation of the struggle against everyday; ableism, racism, classism and sexism.
• A discussion of Kant’s allusion to what we would now call a 'performative subject' in his statement from the anthropology 'the more civilized human beings are, the more they are actors.'