Who Is the Caregiver in Kant’s Theory of Labour? Examining Social Domination in Classical German Philosophy

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ID21700307
AutoresNuria Sánchez Madrid (0000-0003-4273-5948, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas411-428
Data de publicação2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoKantian Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1369415425000081
OpenAlexW4409685031
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas32

This article addresses Kant’s account of domestic labour from the standpoint of social philosophy. First, I examine the case of the domestic household servant as a paradigm of the legal legitimation of social domination in Kant’s legal philosophy. Second, I explore the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in the outsourcing of care tasks available to wealthy European women in Kant’s theory of labour. Third, I bring Kant’s theory into a critical dialogue with some contemporary challenges of a democratic and equal society. Finally, I draw some conclusions about concrete forms of intersectional domination and exploitation underpinning Kant’s republicanism, before proposing that they are clearly inconsistent, insofar as they exclude large groups of people from the republican demos, even if they essentially contribute to its social reproduction

Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Social theory · Sociology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy