Antinomies of race: diversity and destiny in Kant

ABSTRACT

Larrimore's essay reads Kant's pioneering work in the theory of race in the context of his thought as a whole. Kant wrote on race for most of his career; at different stages of his thinking, race assured meaning in human diversity, confirmed the value of a practical-reason-informed understanding of human destiny, and provided a model for the ‘pragmatic’ knowledge of what ‘man can and should make of himself’. ‘Race’ was invented in 1775 as an advertisement for the new disciplines of geography and anthropology that Kant inaugurated and promoted throughout his career. Giving new meaning to a foreign (French) term associated with animal husbandry, Kant presented the (supposedly) exceptionlessly hereditary traits of race as the first fruit of a truly scientific ‘natural history’ of humanity. His concerns were not merely classificatory; his four-race schema, modeled on the temperaments, allowed a special status for Whites as at once a race and the transcendence of race (Kant invented ‘whiteness’ as well as ‘race’). The notion of ‘race’ was refined in essays Kant published in the 1780s, in the same journal as his celebrated essays on Enlightenment and the philosophy of history. It was given a new status, rather than displaced, by the critical turn. Granted a sanction ‘similar’ to the postulates of pure practical reason, its empirical verification would confirm Kant's whole critical system. Kant's theory of race came into its own in the 1790s, gaining wide acceptance. He relied on familiarity with it (and its lingering association with animal husbandry) in explaining the larger project of the ‘pragmatic anthropology’ without which he thought human progress impossible. Understanding how the concept of race contributed to Kant's more familiar and still appealing intellectual and practical concerns, we gain a better sense of its fateful and enduring attractiveness in subsequent eras.     

全员参与的班组建设创新实践——河北省电力公司班组建设调查

班组是企业的最基本细胞,只有班组强,企业才能强。要提高企业的竞争力,就必须加强基层班组建设。河北省电力公司坚持以思想认识的提高推动班组建设的不断深入,在内容上向企业文化、安全生产、队伍素质提升等方面全面拓展;在载体上向职工技术创新活动、培植思想道德不断延伸;在运行上向形成组织领导、运行管理、监督检查、激励约束等长效机制努力推进。突破了传统意义上的班组建设模式,探索了全面加强企业班组建设的新路子。     

动态演化博弈视角下“科技—金融”双轮创新驱动的收益分配机理探析

收益分配是科技创新主体与金融创新主体双方合作的动力和目的。只有准确把握两者的收益分配机理和构建合理的利益分配机制,才能形成双方共享创新收益的分配和激励格局。     

技术侦查相关问题探讨

对于技术侦查,目前理论界争议颇多,现行法律法规也无明确规定,然而在我国侦查实践中技术侦查已经被广泛应用。但是由于缺乏法律法规的制约,并且司法工作者对于技术侦查的认识比较混乱,难免在运用过程中出现问题。因此,有必要对技术侦查进行清晰的界定。     

关于资源型城市发展转型及相关问题的调研报告

狭义的资源型城市指依托当地自然资源进行发展的城市,而广义的资源城市则指利用当地的各类优势资源进行发展的城市,包括矿产资源,旅游资源,交通运输资源,沿海贸易资源,高科技资源等。     

公共部门流程再造的障碍分析

引入企业业务流程再造,是当代公共部门师法企业、推进行政改革的重要战术或策略。但是公共部门与私人部门毕竟是两个具有本质区别的组织,将企业业务流程再造的基本原理和内涵实践于公共部门必然会遭遇到各种困境和阻力,加之公共部门的流程再造也还处于起步阶段。因此在区别公私部门特性的基础上对公共部门流程再造进行障碍分析,并以财力流程再造在公共部门的实施提供改进和展望的思路就显得异常重要。     

Dealing With IPR Cases

正China’s top court is mulling over the establishment of special courts on intellectual property rights New special courts for dealing with claims of infringement against intellectual property rights(IPRs)are expected to be     

树立系统化创新理念 构建高效能、现代化的国家创新体系

该文认为,从中国的国情和经济社会发展对创新的需求出发,要树立＂技术创新、市场运作和知识产权三者有机结合并高效运转＂的系统化创新理念,致力于把握全球科技发展的新趋势,致力于引导体制创新的新方向,致力于提升国家和企业的创新能力,致力于构建高效能、现代化的国家创新体系。     

陕西省产业技术公共服务平台建设与政策探讨

产业技术公共服务平台作为公共科技服务平台体系中的重要组成部分,在区域创新体系中发挥着重要作用。陕西省产业技术公共服务平台建设应在整合现有科技资源的基础上,采用企业主导、项目驱动的平台运作方式,同时结合省内不同产业发展情况,探求建设产业技术公共服务平台的具体模式,并以健全法律法规、完善运营机制、激励机制等方面为主要抓手。     

Lavascape: legal spectacle at Kīlauea

ABSTRACT

In considering the theme “Exploring Legal Discourse: A Sociosemiotic (Re)Construction,” this paper examines the symbolic relationship between law and chaos in the changing landscape of Kīlauea Volcano on Hawai’i Island. The socio-legal dimensions of this relationship provide insight into law’s project of governance in the dynamic natural environment. Most recently, in the summer of 2018, lava spouted and then flowed from Kīlauea in over twenty-four fissures which opened up within two heavily populated residential subdivisions. Law's response to the ensuing chaos provides keen insight into the epistemological positionality of law toward nature. In an attempt to tame this enlivened lavascape of persons and lava, law asserts authority over the spectacle in the areas of sightseeing, access, and mapping. In other words, the legal spectacle of lava eruption is an attempt to jurisdictionally frame the legal imagination of human risk in this dynamic landscape through legal semiotics, legal materiality, and legal topology. However, as this paper will explore, the source of chaos is actually law itself. Attempts to manage chaos are actually attempts to manage human nature as visitation to the erupting volcanic environment is ultimately beyond law's complete control. In a larger sense, this study of Kīlauea's lavascape as a constructed legal spectacle illustrates the phenomenological framing of law's incomplete jurisdiction over kinetic environments.