KANT, HUME, AND FOUCAULT AS THEORISTS OF ADDRESS

Across epochs and areas of Western thought, scholars develop stances on address. Philosophers have long grappled with facets of relationality, normativity, aesthetic meaning, agency, and order that are centered in address. This chapter will examine three moments when philosophy recruits the notion of address to conceptualize relational orders that embody norms, harbor aesthetic practices, and foster paradigms of agency. I will show how Immanuel Kant, David Hume, and Michel Foucault rely on address as a mechanism of social development and a pool of epistemic and experiential resources. While enlisting address in this constructive capacity, these philosophers charge it with aesthetic,