CTK 16 Editorial Note

Con-textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy completes with its issue 16 a successful period as independent periodical for joining from 2023, eight years later its foundation and one year before Kant’s Tercentenary, Ediciones Complutense, a prestigious platform of OJS periodicals. From this new headquarters this journal will keep contributing to weave fruitful discussion networks among Kant scholars. Con-textos Kantianos was grounded in 2014 by two co-Editors-In-Chief in cooperation with a Latin American editorial team and from 2018 it is linked to the Latin American Network RIKEPS, focusing on Kant’s ethical, legal and political thought. The journal is also currently embedded from 2017 in the Research Group GINEDIS (UCM), as it belonged in its very beginning to the Research Group TcP (Theoria cum Praxi: Ethics and Society) of the IFS-CSIC, respectively coordinated by Nuria Sánchez Madrid and Roberto R. Aramayo. Due to the multilingual commitment of this journal, which accepts texts written in six languages, Spanish Kant-research has attained a homologous position to the Kant-research accepted in other journals not admitting Spanish articles for commercial rationale. Armando Menéndez designed for free our multicolored logo, as Nuria Roca worked out the covers of all our issues and also the first layout issue of the journal. This project would have not been feasible without these philanthropic contributions and the devotion of its founders. The hyphen preceding the word Textos in our title intends to highlight a specific editorial spirit. It highlights that Kant’s interpretation has to count on the knowledge of Kant’s writings. Thus, the journal harbors one section focusing on Kant’s Translations into any of our admitted languages, as this philological task is mandatory to put Kant’s philosophy in dialogue with current anxieties. A good cultivated philology is a necessary —but not sufficient— requirement to honor Kant’s thought as it deserves and to get inspiration from it for thinking on one’s own.

Other CTK sections throughout these years have been Interviews and Conversations, some of them held with outstanding Kant scholars as Mario Caimi (by Claudia Jauregui), Lisimaco Parra (by Ángela Uribe), José Luis Villacañas (by Josefa Ros Velasco), Juan Arana (by Ricardo Parellada) or Roberto R. Aramayo (by Ileana Beade). The section Textos Kantianos has hosted translations of Kant’s short writings. The section Documentos has retrieved translations of Kant’s interpretation works currently difficult to be accessed. Many issues have scheduled Dossiers and Discussions of articles put together under a thematic thread. Large sets of Book Reviews have also appeared in these years in this journal. CTK readers and authors are the main asset of this journal at this new stage, where institutional support intertwines with the already achieved academic acknowledgement. CTK editorial team also launched through these years the CTK E-Books Digital Library, in cooperation with Alamanda publishing house.

CTK issue 16 contains an interview that Osman Choque-Aliaga (Univ. of Fribourg, Germany) made to Prof. Volker Gerhardt (Humboldt University, Germany) on the disputed subject of Kant’s racism. This issue also includes a Spanish translation of an article by Arthur Ripstein (Univ. de Toronto, Canada), «Orden privado y justicia pública: Kant y Rawls», by Jorge Omar Rodríguez (UNAM, Mexico). The miscellaneous section of articles put together nine articles in Spanish, English, German and Portuguese, whose authors display an intergenerational spectrum, focusing on manifold features of Kant’s philosophy, as his account of Metaphysics, entangled issues of practical rationality and Kant’s reception by later philosophers, as Hölderlin and Schelling. Seven book reviews of recent Kant-related publications in different languages complete the contents. This section aims to inform CTK readers about the rich production that Kant research currently shows in a global scale.

The editorial team intends to continue through 2023 the CTK International Meetings, in the wake of the ones already held in Bogotá, Madrid (CSIC/UCM) or Santiago de Chile, which will be announced on our webpage.

Roberto R. Aramayo (IFS-CSIC)

& Nuria Sánchez Madrid (UCM)

Co-Editors-In-Chief

December 2022