RT Journal Article
T1 Who is the caregiver in Kant’s theory of labour? Examining social domination in classical german philosophy
A1 Sánchez Madrid, Nuria
AB This article addresses Kant’s account of domestic labour from the standpoint of social philosophy. 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 Kant’s 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, before proposing that they are clearly inconsistent, insofar as they exclude large groups of people from the republican demos, even if they essentially contribute to its social reproduction. 
SN 1369-4154
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110876
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110876
LA eng
NO Sánchez Madrid, N. (2025) “Who is the caregiver in Kant’s theory of labour? Examining social domination in classical german philosophy”, Kantian Review, 30(3), pp. 411-428. Disponible en: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415425000081
NO 2025 Descuento (Cambridge University Press)
NO Este artículo ha recibido el apoyo de la Beca AEI RED2022-134265-T, otorgada por el MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, la Cost Action CA20134 "Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice" (TRACTS)" y del Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora de la Calidad Docente UCM 2022 n.º 52 "Precariedad, exclusión social y marcos epistémicos del daño: lógicas y efectos subjetivos del sufrimiento social contemporáneo" (VI).
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 2 abr 2026