Kant on Film

I have talked to several Kant scholars who had never heard of Philippe Collin’s 1993 film titled Les Derniers Jours d’Emmanuel Kant, so this KOSAK blog post comes as a recommendation. The film is an adaptation of Thomas de Quincey’s novella The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (originally published in 1827), which in turn was for the most part based on E.A. Wasianski’s first-person account of the days leading to Kant’s death, published in his Immanuel Kant in seinen letzten Lebensjahren (1804). The film beautifully recreates some of the iconic scenes from de Quincey’s text.

It can be found on YouTube in full.

Enjoy!