Nedruštvena društvenost: Kant i problem gostoprimstva
Unsocial Sociability: Kant and the Problem of Hospitality

Author(s): Ivan Milenković
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Kant; unsocial sociability; antagonism; nature; oxymoron; violence; law;
Summary/Abstract: Kant’s oxymoron unsocial sociability is part of the great tradition of political ideas that see the beginning of civilization as an exit from disorder and an entry into some sort of order. That order, on the other hand, rests on the law as a coercion that determines freedom negatively, as a series of prohibitions for the sake of the sustainability of the human community. At the same time, however, in the heart of the order there still exists a repressed disorder (unsociability) which, according to Kant, necessarily manifests its creative potential. Hospitality, in a constellation that maintains internal tension (between antagonism as a creative force and tamed antagonism that is restrained by law), appears as a way to mitigate antagonism in international relations for which, as yet, there is no legal framework that would accept the whole the world.

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