Spanish Republicanism: Zuruck zu Kant?

Some Spanish republican theorists argue for recovering Immanuel Kant’s philosophy the left, rescuing him from his unwarranted appropriation by right and correcting neglect progressivism. This article argues that this project is misguided in three ways. First, implication conservatism has claimed Kant its camp simply wrong, given intellectuals on have long explicitly rejected him. Second, it rests a faulty premise: left disagree about abstract concepts. Rather, represents an ad hoc defense of existing power structures without any firm theoretical commitments. Third, clearly progressive, as he wrote against conservative contemporaries. To conclude, I claim progressives’ ill-founded attempt to recover symptomatic broader misunderstanding how progressives define progressivism conservatism. propose rethinking these definitions.