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7 Kant on the Public Sphere and Some Reflections on Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Intercultural Discussion
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Andrea Marlen Esser
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July 27, 2016
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Kant’s famous motto of enlightenment, “Sapere aude!”, is inseparably entwined with the demand for the “public use of reason”. There is no doubt that this also embraces the notion of a free and unrestricted exchange of ideas and indicates the potential beginning of a process in which “subjects” of the state and passive citizens are capable of developing into citizens of the world, and in which nation states are capable of developing into a kind of world community. This conception of the public sphere also receives further concrete articulation in Kant’s Critique of Judgement, as Hannah Arendt already clearly recognized. In particular, the doctrine of reflective judgement, which is developed in that work, also allows us to derive several critical insights from Kant’s conception of enlightenment and the public sphere which are highly relevant to the contemporary intercultural discussion regarding the issue of the “Public Sphere”.
Published Online: 2016-7-27
Published in Print: 2016-7-25
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 The Current Situation of Chinese Philosophy: Problems and Tasks
- 3 Chinese Philosophy – Philosophy in China
- I Public Sphere and Globalization
- 4 The Publicity of Reason(ing)
- 5 Digitalization: Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?
- II Fundamental Philosophical Questions in Public Sphere
- 6 Pluralism, Autonomy and Public Deliberation
- 7 Kant on the Public Sphere and Some Reflections on Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Intercultural Discussion
- 8 The Public Sphere and the Faculty of Judgment: Hannah Arendt’s Theses on Public Opinion
- 9 On Political Freedom in Public Sphere in View of the Contrast Between Téchne and Túche – A Comparison Between Arendt and Heidegger
- 10 Habermas on Instrumental Reasoning in Public Sphere
- III Public Sphere and Ethics
- 11 Republicity
- 12 Changing the Imperial Mindset
- 13 Communicative Power and the Public Sphere
- IV The Problem of Public Sphere in Asian Cultures
- 14 Public Sphere and Open Society from the Perspective of Axial Age China
- 15 How to Jointly Decide What Ought to Be Done?
- 16 The Confucian Concept of “Cheng” (Integrity) in Relation to Publicity and Justice
- V Public Sphere and Democracy
- 17 National and International Public Spheres and the Protection of Human Rights
- 18 International Justice and the Limit of Public Reason
- 19 Privacy and/in the Public Sphere
- 20 Context, Perspective and Research Method: Several Problems of the Research on Publicness
- VI Publicity and Justice
- 21 Origins of Justice Theory in China and West
- 22 Representation, Political and Juridical
- 23 Tolerance and the Legitimacy of Law
- 24 Justice, Primary Goods and Public Reason
- 25 The Ethics of Whistleblowing
- 26 Practical Wisdom in Confucian Philosophy
- 27 The Challenges of Cognitive Science to Philosophy
- 28 On “Intentionality” and “Meta- Intentionality” in Eastern and Western Philosophies of Consciousness
- 29 Marx’s Theory of the Historical Path and its Commitment to Concretization
- 30 Characteristics of Chinese Philosophy and the Chinese National Spirit
- 31 Utopisches Denken in der Chinesischen Gegenwartsphilosophie
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 The Current Situation of Chinese Philosophy: Problems and Tasks
- 3 Chinese Philosophy – Philosophy in China
- I Public Sphere and Globalization
- 4 The Publicity of Reason(ing)
- 5 Digitalization: Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?
- II Fundamental Philosophical Questions in Public Sphere
- 6 Pluralism, Autonomy and Public Deliberation
- 7 Kant on the Public Sphere and Some Reflections on Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Intercultural Discussion
- 8 The Public Sphere and the Faculty of Judgment: Hannah Arendt’s Theses on Public Opinion
- 9 On Political Freedom in Public Sphere in View of the Contrast Between Téchne and Túche – A Comparison Between Arendt and Heidegger
- 10 Habermas on Instrumental Reasoning in Public Sphere
- III Public Sphere and Ethics
- 11 Republicity
- 12 Changing the Imperial Mindset
- 13 Communicative Power and the Public Sphere
- IV The Problem of Public Sphere in Asian Cultures
- 14 Public Sphere and Open Society from the Perspective of Axial Age China
- 15 How to Jointly Decide What Ought to Be Done?
- 16 The Confucian Concept of “Cheng” (Integrity) in Relation to Publicity and Justice
- V Public Sphere and Democracy
- 17 National and International Public Spheres and the Protection of Human Rights
- 18 International Justice and the Limit of Public Reason
- 19 Privacy and/in the Public Sphere
- 20 Context, Perspective and Research Method: Several Problems of the Research on Publicness
- VI Publicity and Justice
- 21 Origins of Justice Theory in China and West
- 22 Representation, Political and Juridical
- 23 Tolerance and the Legitimacy of Law
- 24 Justice, Primary Goods and Public Reason
- 25 The Ethics of Whistleblowing
- 26 Practical Wisdom in Confucian Philosophy
- 27 The Challenges of Cognitive Science to Philosophy
- 28 On “Intentionality” and “Meta- Intentionality” in Eastern and Western Philosophies of Consciousness
- 29 Marx’s Theory of the Historical Path and its Commitment to Concretization
- 30 Characteristics of Chinese Philosophy and the Chinese National Spirit
- 31 Utopisches Denken in der Chinesischen Gegenwartsphilosophie
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
