Benedikt Kuhn | Autoteleotechnics. Hypotyposis and Technics of Nature in Kant
17. Dec
6:00 pm, C40.704
In the “Critique of the Power of Judgment”, Immanuel Kant continues his thinking about the connection between sensibility and conceptual understanding by developing his conception of the synthetic and schematizing powers of human cognition. With particular regard to his concept of the power of judgment, his theory of schematization from the “Critique of Pure Reason” is extended by developing a different, rhetorically grounded notion of symbolic representation, which Kant calls “hypotyposis”. Bridging the realms of theoretical understanding and practical reason, famously separated in Kant’s philosophy, this specific form of representation not only offers a fascinating development of his theoretical aesthetics, but also plays a central role in thinking about teleological causality in Kant's concept of nature. Following a thesis put forward by Werner Hamacher, this talk will show how Kant's thinking in the third Critique connects the concepts of aesthetics, technics, and ends, and how this connection might be fruitful for discussions in Critical Theory dealing with these topics today.
Benedikt Kuhn is a PhD candidate in the research initiative “The Disruptive Condition” at Leuphana university, where he is working on a dissertation on the relationship between sensibility and technology in Kant, Marx and Stiegler. His most recent publications relate to Marx's theory of value as a basis for criticism of contemporary poetry and Bernard Stiegler’s reading of Kant’s first Critique.
Language: English
An event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition
Contact: Anne Gräfe (anne.graefe@leuphana.de)