{"product_id":"9781487592301","title":"The Kantian Imperative: Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eImmanuel Kant's moral philosophy is almost universally understood as the attempt to analyse and defend a morality based on individual autonomy. In \u003ci\u003eThe Kantian Imperative\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscerning the influence of this model on a wide variety of historical and contemporary political thought and philosophy and critical of its implications, Saurette explores its impact on the work of two seminal and contemporary thinkers in particular:  Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas. Saurette also shows that an analysis of the Kantian imperative allows a better understanding of current political problems such as the U.S. torture scandal at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and broader post-9\/11 U.S. foreign policy. \u003ci\u003eThe Kantian Imperative\u003c\/i\u003e thus demonstrates that philosophy and political theory are as relevant to contemporary events as at any other time in history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130336952560,"sku":"9781487592301","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487592301_p0.jpg?v=1763635908","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487592301","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}