Charlton Payne – författare

An interdisciplanary collection of essays focused on Kant's work on the concept of community.The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason; the community of substances in the third analogy; the realm of ends as an ethical community; the state and the public sphere as political communities; the sensus communis of the Critique of Judgment; and the idea of the church as a religious community in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Given Kant's status as a systematic philosopher, volume editorsPayne and Thorpe maintain that any examination of the concept of community in one area of his work can be understood only in relation to the others. In this volume, then, scholars from different disciplines -- specializing in various aspects of and approaches to Kant's work -- offer their interpretations of Kant on the concept of community. The various essays further illustrate the central relevance and importance of Kant's conception of community to contemporary debates in various fields.Charlton Payne is postdoctoral fellow at Plattform Weltregionen und Interaktionen, Universität Erfurt, Germany. Lucas Thorpe is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy atBogaziçi University, Turkey. Contributors: Ronald Beiner, Jeffrey Edwards, Michael Feola, Paul Guyer, Jane Kneller, Béatrice Longuenesse, Jan Mieszkowski, Onora O'Neill, Charlton Payne, Susan M. Shell, Lucas Thorpe, Eric Watkins, Allen W. Wood

This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent ‑ and hence legitimating ‑ stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.

This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent ‑ and hence legitimating ‑ stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.

Gegenwartsliteratur reflektiert Fluchtbewegungen und -gründe. Sie dekonstruiert Stereotype des »Flüchtlings« und analogisiert historische mit zeitgenössischen Fluchtbewegungen. Die Beiträge nehmen autofiktionale Texte kürzlich geflüchteter SchriftstellerInnen ebenso in den Blick wie literarische Flüchtlingsdarstellungen etablierter AutorInnen, von Anna Seghers zu Peter Handke, von Saša Stanišic zu Abbas Khider. Sie fragen nach epistemischen, identitätsbezogenen, nationalmythischen und nicht zuletzt juristischen Erschütterungen, die die Flucht für aufnehmende Gesellschaften bedeuten kann, und nach der narrativen Konstruktion der Zuschreibung »Flüchtling«. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt Texten, die eingeübte Denkmuster und Stereotype infrage stellen. Zudem wird untersucht, wie Gegenwartsliteratur nach einer geeigneten Sprache und nach passenden Erzählmustern sucht, um den spezifischen Ausnahmezustand der Fluchterfahrung zu schildern.The essays focus both on autofictions by authors who recently fled to German speaking countries and on literary depictions of refugees by established authors; they analyze works by a range of writers, from Anna Seghers to Peter Handke, from Saša Stanišic to Abbas Khider. The contributions to the volume examine how refugee movements challenge traditional concepts of identity and nation but also call into question epistemic and legal conventions. While examining narrative constructions of the ''refugee'', the articles focus especially on literary texts that criticize entrenched patterns of thought and stereotypes, often in a satirical manner. Contemporary literature searches for a language and narration by which to represent the particular states of exception which characterize the refugee experience.