Immanuel Kant

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).

Written for the general reader, Wick’s brisk biography of Kant gives us three valuable things: a sense of the man, a generous set of discussions of his writings, and the needed context – historical, philosophical, and scientific – to better appreciate why Kant’s ideas were so important in his day and are still “a big deal” in our own. - Steve Naragon, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Manchester University, Indiana, and editor of Portraits of KantRobert Wicks’s splendid book reintegrates Kant’s epochal philosophy into his remarkable life, illuminating both. Lucid, informative, imaginative and accurate, it is engaging for general readers and for students of Kant at any level. - Kenneth R. Westphal, Member of Academia Europaea and author of Kant's Critical Epistemology