Description: Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophical method and decisively shaped modern politics. Three hundred years after Kant's birth, Marcus Willaschek brings together the German idealist's life and thought, examining the personality who changed the course of intellectual history as well as the substance and enduring importance of his ideas.
Brief description: Marcus Willaschek is Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, where he is responsible for the German standard edition of Kant's works. The author of four books, he is also coeditor of the three-volume Kant-Lexikon.
Review Quotes: Refreshing...Shows that Kant's moral philosophy, so often caricatured as being all head and no heart, is, like the man himself, in fact an admirable mixture of both.--Julian Baggini "Wall Street Journal" (9/25/2025 12:00:00 AM)