%0 Journal Article
%A Sánchez Madrid, Nuria
%T Who is the caregiver in Kant’s theory of labour? Examining social domination in classical german philosophy
%D 2024
%@ 1369-4154
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110876
%X My paper addresses Kant’s account of domestic labour from the standpoint of social philosophy and takes issue with some inconsistencies in Kant’s theory of labour relations. First, I examine the case of the domestic household servant as a paradigm of the legal legitimation of social domination in Kant’s legal philosophy. Second, I explore the intersectionality of gender, race and class in the outsourcing of care tasks available to wealthy European women in Kant’s theory of labour. Third, I bring this theory into a critical dialogue with some contemporary challenges of a democratic and equal society. Finally, I draw some conclusions about concrete forms of intersectional domination and exploitation underpinning Kant’s republicanism, which should be viewed as inconsistent with the principles of a free, equal and self-sufficient civil commonwealth.
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