Kant as methodology: race, white ignorance, and intellectual responsibility

Gani, Jasmine K. ORCID: 0000-0002-8218-1807 (2025) Kant as methodology: race, white ignorance, and intellectual responsibility. Critical Philosophy of Race. ISSN 2165-8684 (In Press)

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Abstract

In this article I situate Kant’s theories and epistemologies of race within a wider architecture of knowledge production and coloniality, and from there consider how his approach can illuminate our understandings about methodology and scholarly praxis. In doing so, I seek to move the conversation beyond Kant's raciology, which by and large has been ‘outed’, and to instead draw attention to his methodology and praxis. I argue that by recognising and articulating Kant’s philosophical and practical incrementalism, dualism, and erasures in knowledge production and dissemination as a methodology, we can better identify, make sense of, and critique those methodologies when they are employed in contemporary scholarship and political action. Additionally, I attempt to answer the question of what comes next for a racially aware Kantian studies (or at least point towards possibilities) by drawing upon decolonial and postcolonial theories and a necessarily interdisciplinary approach. I propose a three-step approach to address Kant's raciology and white ignorance that includes historicity, citational politics, and contrapuntality, as reflexive methods with which Kantian scholars and students may be able to move forward both ethically and intellectually.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025
Divisions:	International Relations
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	18 Jul 2025 08:24
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2025 08:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128877

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