KANT U FEMINISTIČKOJ LEKTIRI
KANT IN A FEMINIST READING

Summary/Abstract: This paper originated as a lecture given at an international conference entitled “Kant today” (Kant heute) held in Sarajevo on 15 and 16 October 2004. I took the title of the conference as an allegorical presentation of Ars Critice, symbolically actualizing the moment of reinterpretation of a specific figure who is canonized in the domain of philosophy. The executive power of appealing to Kant’s name, arising from the vastly increased discussion on Kant’s topicality, lies in the conviction that his “practical philosophy” and cosmopolitanism may serve as a remedy for widespread nihilism and relativism. Following feminist readings and debates on this topic, I suggest that a woman philosopher’s critical reading not only take this into account in a work of re-actualization, but also that, contrary to the kind of reading that relies on institutions upholding hierarchical models of harmonization (almost without exception phallogocentric), it also try togive serious consideration, in the process of reading, to practising and succeeding in recognizing discursive violence and that which is passed over in silence or suppressed in the texts, even in philosophical writings.

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