TY - JOUR AU - Carter, William H PY - 2011/10/24 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - KANT CRISIS JF - Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies JA - Imaginations VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.17742/IMAGE.crypt.2-1.7 UR - https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/article/view/27198 SP - 68-79 AB - <p>• ISSUE 2-1, 2011 • 68<br />KANT CRISIS<br />This study approaches the last days of Immanuel Kant<br />through the lens of his contemporary biographers and<br />other correspondents. Among the latter, Kant’s brother<br />and, subsequently, his brother’s family provide a symptomatic<br />reflection upon Kant’s management of his genealogy<br />and his legacy. Yet behind this body of work<br />is another corpus, one which embodies maternal and<br />paternal legacies that are not readily subsumed by Oedipus<br />or Kant’s philosophy. This work (of art) is Kant’s<br />own body or corpus, which he painstakingly maintained<br />and which provided a case study for his refelctions on<br />preventive medicine in The Conflict of the Faculties.<br />William H. Carter studied at the University of Virginia,<br />the University of Heidelberg, and earned his Ph.D. at<br />the University of California, Santa Barbara. He taught<br />German for three years at Tulane University and recently<br />returned to the Department of World Languages<br />and Cultures at Iowa State University, where he began<br />his teaching career. His current book project is titled<br />“Devilish Details: Goethe’s Public Service and Political<br />Economy.”<br />Julian Fickler attends the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe,<br />class of Helmut Dorner. He is the recipient of a<br />prestigious fellowship award bestowed by the Künstlerförderung<br />des Cusanuswerks Bonn. He has exhibited<br />solo locally and in group at venues in Berlin and Hamburg.</p> ER -