In her text ‘Intersubjectivity and Alterity in Kant’, Marita Rainsborough addresses the question of intersubjectivity and alterity in Kant in its epistemological, ethical, aesthetic and political dimensions and notes that Kantian theorems such as e.g. ‘pluralism’, ‘extended mode of thought’, ‘unsociable sociability’, ‘public sphere’, ‘world public sphere’, ‘sensus communis’,
‘publicity’, ‘hospitality’ as well as basic epistemological, ethical and aesthetic assumptions offer fundamental starting points for understanding Kant with regard to the aspects of intersubjectivity and alterity, whereby the intrasubjective dimension must be thought of as connected to the intersubjective dimension. Intersubjectivity turns out to be anchored in different areas and at different levels in Kant’s philosophy, but remains an inter-subjectivity. The otherness of the Other also has its place in this.
However, it becomes clear that although Kant does justice to the otherness of the Other from the approach on the theoretical level, but not in his evaluative categorisations and hierarchisations that can often be found. One must join Kant in thinking beyond Kant.