De Quincey Thomas: Posljednji dani Immanuela Kanta

Name: Posljednji dani Immanuela Kanta
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Posljednji dani Immanuela Kanta

De Quincey Thomas

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Thomas de Quincey: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant

The aging Immanuel Kant, a man of deep thought, spends his last year lulled into numerous interactions with his friends and servants. The home rituals of dining, drinking coffee and tea, smoking a pipe, receiving guests, going to the park, traveling by carriage alternate. In his later years, Kant replaced the dilapidated faculty lecture halls with his own dining room, which became his refuge, but also a gathering place for his acquaintances, former students, Königsberg doctors, priests and enlightened merchants. He is a pleasant and cordial host, not at all burdened by the title of a great philosopher, so the conversations at his table are never of a philosophical nature, but concern meteorology, natural science, chemistry, and especially daily political news.

Based on the authentic records of Kant's secretary and caregiver Ehregott Andreas Wasionski, De Quincey asks the question, who was Immanuel Kant when he was not a philosopher? If Kant was a great metaphysician of his time, could his everyday life have resembled the everyday life of other people? Or more precisely, could Kant's person be as interesting as Kant's thought? »The last days of Immanuel Kant«, the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges included in his library the most important works of world literature.

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