September 28, 2026
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An article co-written by philosophy professor Helga Varden, Jordan Pascoe, a former visiting scholar at Illinois, and Lara Scaglia was published in the Kantian Review.
The article, titled Kant and Sexual Fantasy, builds on Kant’s idea of “free play of the imagination.”
Varden, Pascoe, and Scaglia argue that “sexual fantasy reveals both deep insights into our desires and emotional wounds as well as the impact of oppressive conditions on our sexual selves.”