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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Kant’s 3 questions; his last days; and a book trailer

In the “Critique of Pure Reason,” Immanuel Kant writes that “all the interests of my reason,” theoretical as well as practical, boil down to just three questions: “What can I know?” “What ought I do?” and “What can I hope for?” In these three questions, Kant delineated the whole scope of philosophical thought...
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The nineteen-nineties were a dead zone for the U.S. distribution of international and independent films. While a handful of flashy breakout hits were being widely hailed (and over-hailed), many of the best movies of the decade were left unreleased and largely unseen. One of the most distinctive and original films of the time, Philippe Collin’s “The Last Days of Immanuel Kant,” from 1996 (which has turned up on YouTube), is a delicious cinematic paradox. It follows the famously abstemious and abstruse philosopher as he’s anticipating his death, yet it’s a physical comedy filled with neo-slapstick intimacy—one of the rare cinematic heirs to the works of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton... (continues)
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My friend the Kant scholar didn't think this a flattering portrait, but I think it's charming. 

 





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