Kant, Race, and Racism Huaping Lu-Adler

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• ISBN 10: 0197685226
• ISBN 13:9780197685228
• Author:  Huaping Lu-Adler

Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his core philosophy. They also assume that racism contradicts his moral theory. In this book, philosopher Huaping Lu-Adler challenges both assumptions. She shows how Kant’s raciology–divided into racialism and racism–is integral to his philosophical system. She also rejects the individualistic approach to Kant and racism. Instead, she uses the notion of racism as ideological formation to demonstrate how Kant, from his social location both as a prominent scholar and as a lifelong educator, participated in the formation of modern racist ideology. As a scholar, Kant developed a ground-breaking scientific theory of race from the standpoint of a philosophical investigator of nature or Naturforscher. As an educator, he transmitted denigrating depictions of the racialized others and imbued those descriptions with normative relevance. In both roles, he left behind, as one of his legacies, a worldview that excluded non-whites from such goods as recognitional respect and candidacy for cultural and moral achievements. Scholars who research and teach Kant’s philosophy therefore have an unshakable burden to take part in the ongoing antiracist struggles, through their teaching practices as well as their scholarship. And they must do so with a pragmatic attention to nonideal social realities and a deliberate orientation toward substantial racial justice, equality, and inclusion. Lu-Adler pushes the discourse about Kant and racism well beyond the old debates about whether he was racist or whether his racism contaminates his philosophy. By foregrounding the lasting legacies of Kant’s raciology, her work calls for a profound reorientation of Kant scholarship.

Table contents:

1. Where Is the “Contradiction”?—Reconsidering the Place of Race in Kant’s System

2. “Racism” in What Sense?—Reconceptualizing Kant’s Relation to Racism

3. Investigating Nature under the Guidance of Reason—Kant’s Approach to “Race” as a Naturforscher

4. From Baconian Natural History to Kant’s Racialization of Human Differences—A Study of Philosophizing from Locations of Power

5. What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen—What Kant Can(not) Tell Us about Racial (Self-)Perceptions

6. Race and the Claim to True Philosophy—Kant and the Formation of an Exclusionary History of Philosophy

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