Kant i Šloser: O slučaju povišenog tona u filozofiji
Kant and Schlosser: On the Case of Arisen Tone in Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a reading of Kant‘s quarrel with Schlosser approaching it regarding political presuppositions and implications of this polemic. According to the main thesis of this paper Kant‘s texts On the Newly Arisen Superior Tone in Philosophy and Announcement of a Near Conclusion of a Treaty for Eternal Peace in Philosophy – read regarding political and social context – do not represent philosophical debate in a strict sense of this word, but a quarrel between philosopher as a champion of bourgeois political values and the writer whose actions in the public sphere are perceived as a danger for the very existence of freedom of public speech. Reading of specific passages should illustrate parallelism between presupposed values of bourgeois politics and values which Kant posits as prerequisites of every philosophical discourse. In the end, such a reading shows Kant‘s radical republicanism regarding a virtual sphere of public speech in which the authority of individuals or tradition is not tolerated.

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