A Marxist Educated Kant: Philosophy of History in Kant and the Frankfurt School. Issue 4 (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brunkhorst, Hauke
• Editors: Iago, Garmon; Jones, Andrew; Roberts, Peri; Williams, Howard
• Is Part Of: Kantian review. Volume 25:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 515
• Page End: 540
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: revolution, -- evolution, -- learning, -- absolute, -- truth, -- transcend, -- progress, -- ideology, -- existing contradiction, -- counter-memory; Neo-Kantianism -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 142.305
• DOI: 10.1017/S1369415420000394
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-4154

Abstract

Abstract: In a lecture that Habermas gave on his 90th birthday he ironically, but with serious intent, called a good Kant a sufficiently Marxist educated Kant. This dialectical Kant is the only one of the many Kants who maintains the idea of an unconditioned moral autonomy but completely within evolution, history and in the middle of societal class and other struggles. The article tries to show what Kant could have learned from his later critics to enable him to become a member of the Frankfurt School's neo-Marxist theory of society.