Jean Paul Mongin

Professor Kant's Incredible Day Jean Paul Mongin

What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What s for dinner? More than two hundred years ago, on a day that takes quite a peculiar course, Professor Kant is working hard to give an answer to all these questions. Not only the morning papers, but also a slightly perfumed letter get in his way however. As a result, he even forgets to go out on his regular digestive walk and everything goes off the rails Light-hearted without being flippant, funny and ironical, and accompanied by congenial artwork, this book tells the story of a day in the life of the great stylite and ancestor of Enlightenment philosophy, Immanuel Kant, sketching some of his major thoughts (without omitting his seemingly minor ones, like the inhabitants of Jupiter have marvelously light-weight bodies which teases readers to develop a historical understanding). The result is a wondrously easy and articulate approach to Kant s important construct of ideas. "