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Antisemitism
Author_Robert Wicks
Category=DNBM
Category=QD
Critique
Enlightenment
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forthcoming
Idealism
Pietism
Racism
Rationalism
Reason
Theism
Transcendental
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- ISBN 9781836392514
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) had astonishing conversational skills, was intelligently attentive to his frail physical constitution and lived with a single-minded dedication to the moral education of humanity. This concise biography highlights Kant as someone who embodied extreme intellectual ambition and unshakeable self-discipline. Robert Wicks explores the long-term influence of Kant’s Pietistic upbringing, the initial frustrations in his search for intellectual fame, his impressive friendships and his reactions to momentous historical events such as the French Revolution. He also considers critically the accusations that Kant was sexist, antisemitic and racist, and describes Kant's final years along with his philosophical legacy. This is an accessible, illuminating account of Kant’s complex philosophical ideas in the context of his life and times.
Robert Wicks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. Among other books on nineteenth-century philosophy, he is the author of Kant on Judgment (2007) and Introduction to Existentialism: From Kierkegaard to ‘The Seventh Seal’ (2020).
