When Kant was too woke for french schools (0/?)
"[The novel] opens in Nancy , where seven young Lorrainers destined to set out on different paths , all leading to Paris and all but three to bad ends , fall under the spell of a philosophy professor named Bouteiller , whose encyclopedic mind flies in wide circles but nests in the work of Immanuel Kant . What becomes of them individually once they graduate matters less here than the general harm Barrès attributes to Bouteiller 's pact with the devil of Kant ian universalism ." -The Embrace of Unreason, Frederick Brown. Clearly there's a lot to unpack here. I'm not going to unpack it right now, because that's going to take at few days and I want to make sure this post goes up before 10 am tomorrow (which given my sleep schedule means uploading it tonight). I can tell you that it will (probably) involve such pleasant topics as the intellectual origins of fascism though. In other news, welcome to my blog! I wil...