Gábor Gángó

Philosopher (promoted in 2004) and a historian of ideas (promoted in 1997). He taught at the universities of Szeged, Vienna and Miskolc, spent his research stays in Vienna, Warsaw, Edinburgh and Wolfenbüttel and lectured, among other places, in Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Nancy, Montréal and Buenos Aires. At the early stage of his career, he worked on 19th century history of ideas in Austria and Hungary. Recently, he has pursued research into Kant, the intellectual constellation of Weimar Germany and the cultural critique of capitalism. His last book: Marxismo, cultura, comunicación. De Kant y Fichte a Lukács y Benjamin. Transl de Martín Koval et al., ed. de Miguel Vedda, Buenos Aires, Herramienta, 2009.
Email: gaborgango@yahoo.com

Issue: 1:2 (The second issue)

My paper compares a few of the key issues of Hannah Arendt’s and Immanuel Kant’s account on IR by revisiting the controversial reading she offered on § 40‒41 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. It claims that by focusing closely on their parallel insights concerning the insecurity inherent to the supranational level of politics which was called by Arendt “the world” and by Kant “the cosmopolitan community of mankind”, one can argue for her thesis on the high political relevance of the theory of judgement based on what Kant labelled as sensus communis in his aesthetics.