Chronicles of an expected Kantianism

The Kantian overtones of Philosophiques?

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigates the surprising rebirth of interest in Kantian philosophy in Philosophies, the Société de Philosophie du Québec journal, from 1990 to 2000. At the time, we were witnessing the reception in Quebec of Franco-German debates that had begun a decade earlier around the critique of the judicial faculty. I demonstrate that two separate philosophical projects may explain this historical convergence. On the one hand, a strong Quebec exegesis reinstates the aesthetic function of the "sublime", which Adorno and Lyotard overemphasized, in its relation to the judgment of taste. On the other hand, in their "family quarrel" in political and legal philosophy, Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls, and Alain Renaut, make use of the conceptual resources developed in the first section of the Critique of the Faculty of Judgment (e.g. intersubjectivity, communicability, sympathy) to identify criteria of practical objectivity practical.