TEMPORAL TENSIONS. LIFE AND ORGANISM IN KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Beginning with the distinction introduced by Kant between life and organism, I propose to examine the link or transit between nature and freedom as the fulfilment and closure of the critical entreprise. Revisiting the concepts of life and organism at the different moments of the critical period in which they are developed, brings forth an occasion to think about rime,or the tensions that rake place with it, as an element that brings together nature and freedom. Instead of harmonizing or reuniting, the temporal tensions highlighted turn the pretended closure into an unstable part of the critiques, allowing a questioning of the notion of rational subject as the starting point of philosophy.