%0 Journal Article
%T Conservative and revolutionary readings of the categorical imperative: The logic of desire and the logic of drive in Kant¡¯s practical philosophy
%A Selimbegovi£¿ Ivan
%J Filozofija i Dru£¿tvo
%D 2011
%I Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
%R 10.2298/fid1102239s
%X This paper will confront two possible conceptions of Imamanuel Kant¡¯s practical philosophy based on two different possible understandings of categorical imperative. The first conception sees the categorical imperative as prescribing a form for the maxime under which a subject is to act if his actions are to be taken as moral. This conception is shown to be conservative as it preserves the existing moral norms of a society. This way of functioning of categorical imperative is shown to be homologuous to the logic of desiare as described by the french psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and as incapable of providing a basis for ascribing responsibility to a subject for his acts. Another conception will be offered as an alternative: on that conception the categorical imeprative prescribes a manner of willing any maxime which is shown to be analoguous to the logic of the death drive. It¡¯s ethical and revolutionary character are elucidated towards the end of the paper.
%K categorical imperative
%K law
%K exception
%K universalised crime
%K desire
%K drive
%K subject
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2011/0353-57381102239S.pdf