CTK 12 Editorial Note
The international
journal Con-Textos Kantianos is very glad
to share with its contributors and readers a great new, i.e.
to have reached a few months before the pandemic crisis the acknowledgment Q2 as
the Scimago Journal List reports[*].
This acknowledgment looks like to be a collateral effect of a long-term sustained
editorial work, which in five years has achieved this outstanding impact. Our
independence from already usual bureaucratic guidelines applied as inflexible
algorithms might have ironically contributed to obtain this score. In our view
it is possible to meet demanding quality standards without imposing a heavy
administrative surveillance. Moreover, the lack of such a burden helps to strengthen
the academic commitment of CTK journal. To share the Q2 impact with journals as
Kant-Studien proves that the outcomes generated by a sound institutional
can be also earned through the individual enthusiasm felt for boosting the
research and contemporary reception of Kant’s writings.
Even
if we get or not the Q1 impact, the horizon of Kant’s tricentenary appears
promising for the balance of this journal. CTK has already organized four
international workshops —held in Bogotá, Madrid, Santiago de Chile and México—,
and some of them have been published in collected volumes. According to the
circumstances of the pandemic it is likely that a second edition of Parerga Kantiana http://cchs.csic.es/es/event/parerga-kantiana-ii-encuentro-internacional-ctk-ctk-e-books) might be held in 2021, as a digital discussion
organized in cooperation with the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese Network
RIKEPS (https://kantrikeps.es/).
The promoters and sponsors of this project decided
at quite early stage to link the journal with the free access Kantian Digital
Library (CTK E-Books: https://ctkebooks.net/), another project developed in cooperation with
Nuria Roca, from Alamanda publishing house, which meets the highest quality
standards and displays a large number of downloads. Alamanda runs the layout
process and the production of each blind peer reviewed volume and also prints
hard copies on demand.
It
has been a privilege to have grounded both academic and publishing projects
with Nuria Sánchez Madrid
(University Complutense of Madrid, Spain), whose extraordinary support has been
a key actor to launch them. From the outset we enjoyed the helpful company of María
Julia Bertomeu (CONICET, Argentina), Catalina González (Univ. of Los Andes,
Colombia), Efraín Lazos (IIF/UNAM, México) and Luis Eduardo Molina (Univ. Alberto
Hurtado, Chile). We hope that CTK continues receiving individual and
institutional supports for its further development. At any case, this example
should encourage further similar initiatives.
CTK
12 contains a special issue with the title Kant’s Aesthetic Theory, whose
guest editor is the post-doc researcher João Lemos (Nova University of Lisbon,
Portugal). This December issue also contains an Interview with Prof.
Alejandro Vigo (Univ. of Navarra, Spain), authored by Roberto Casales, Livia
Bastos Andrade y Rubén Sánchez Muñoz, all of them from the UPAEP (México) and a
Discussion focusing on the function that property fulfills in Kantian
republicanism, with the participation of Macarena Marey (CONICET/UBA,
Argentina), María Julia Bertomeu (CONICET, Argentina) and Nuria Sánchez Madrid
(University Complutense of Madrid). Eight book reviews of recent Kant-related
essays and collected books complete the table of contents of this issue.
Roberto R. Aramayo
Main Editor and founder of CTK
CSIC Institute of Philosophy, November 2020
https://theconversation.com/profiles/roberto-r-aramayo-875223