Abstract
AbstractThis chapter assigns a central place to the nature-culture distinction in eighteenth century anthropology in general and Kantian anthropology in particular. A feminist perspective on Kant’s anthropology can be developed in two directions. On the one hand, it focuses on the theoretical foundation of gender polarity and its intrinsic telos of cultivation as well as moralization, which Kant, taking up Rousseauean patterns of justification, unfolds in his anthropological but also in other writings. On the other hand, from an intersectional and postcolonial perspective, it problematizes the linkage of modern universalism with the discourse of qualitative gender difference and theories of race, in which the bourgeois-emancipatory concept of nature simultaneously functions as a medium of distinctions, hierarchies, and dominances.
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