Kants Gespenster: Anthropologische und mediale Grenzobjekte in der Aufklärung

Abstract

In Enlightenment discourse, the talk of ghosts transmitted from antiquity and the medieval period took on an increasingly epistemological role. In the framework of a reading of Kant's Dreams of a Spirit Seer (1766), we see that in this period the breech between subject and object became more apparent than ever before. In this framework, medial thinking, caught between technology and esoterics, offered a major philosophical contribution to eighteenth century anthropology