ON THE NOTION OF THE MONSTROUS IN KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY

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https://doi.org/10.35588/rhsm.v25i2.4696

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Victim, Perpetrator, Monster, Kant

Abstract

This article discusses the aesthetical category of the monstrous, which is usually used to represent perpetrators. We believe that the monstrous does not properly approach the object that is meant to qualify, insofar as –from a philosophical-political point of view– when we say of someone that it is a monster, we say that he, she, or they exceed our capacity of understanding. We will show this deficiency through an analysis of this problem in Immanuel Kant’s philosophy to demonstrate that to reduction of the perpetrator to the monstrous has a very limited political performance

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  • Patricio Arriagada, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Patricio Arriagada V. PhD in History from the Catholic University of Chile. He is now working on a postdoctoral research about the reception of French Existentialism in the Southern Cone. His most recent publication is the coedited volume La urgencia de la memoria, Santiago: Lom Ediciones, 2020 (with Víctor Ibarra and Bárbara Silva)

  • Victor Ibarra B., University Goethe of Fráncfort of Meno-DAAD

    Víctor Ibarra B. Editor in Cuadro de Tiza. PhD candidate in the joint PhD program in Philosophy between Universidad Diego Portales and Leiden University, formerly holder of a Conicyt scholarship. He is currently writing a second dissertation at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, thanks to a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). His most recent publication is the coedited volume La urgencia de la memoria, Santiago: Lom Ediciones, 2020 (with Patricio Arriagada and Bárbara Silva).

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2021-12-09

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Vol. 25 No. 2 (2021): Making Politics. The role of the media in socio-political practice in Latin America. Centuries XIX-XXI

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ON THE NOTION OF THE MONSTROUS IN KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY. (2021). Revista De Historia Social Y De Las Mentalidades, 25(2), 287-306. https://doi.org/10.35588/rhsm.v25i2.4696