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THE KANTIAN IMPERATIVE:

HUMILIATION, COMMON SENSE, POLITICS

Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy is almost universally understood

as an attempt to analyse and defend a morality based on individual

autonomy. In The Kantian Imperative , Paul Saurette challenges this

interpretation by arguing that Kant’s ‘imperative’ is actually based on

a problematic appeal to ‘common sense’ and that it is premised on, and

seeks to further cultivate and intensify, the feeling of humiliation in

every moral subject.

Discerning the influence of this model on historical and contempo-

rary political thought and philosophy, Saurette explores its particular

impact on the work of two contemporary thinkers: Charles Taylor and

Jürgen Habermas. Saurette also shows that an analysis of the Kantian

imperative allows a better understanding of specific current political

issues, such as the U.S. military scandal at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and of

broader ones, such as post-9/11 foreign policy. The Kantian Imperative

thus demonstrates that Kant’s moral philosophy and political theory

are as relevant today as at any other time in history.

PAUL SAURETTE is an assistant professor in the School of Political Stud-

ies at the University of Ottawa.

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The Kantian Imperative

Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics

PAUL SAURETTE

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Toronto Buffalo London

www.utppublishing.com

Toronto Buffalo London

Printed in Canada

ISBN 0-8020-3882-4 (cloth)

ISBN 0-8020-4880-3 (paper)

Printed on acid-free paper

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Saurette, Paul

The Kantian imperative : humiliation, common sense,

politics / Paul Saurette.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8020-3882-4 (bound). ISBN 0-8020-4880-3 (pbk.)

1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804. 2. Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804 –

Contributions in political science. I. Title.

B2798.S28 2005 193

C2005-900775-3

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through

the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by

the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to

its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the

Ontario Arts Council.

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for

its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the

Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).

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