
Party Fun with Kant
Nicolas Mahler(Author)
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 8. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-85742-536-2 (ISBN)
Description
Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let's be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant-and his fellow serious-minded figures from the history of philosophy-with a comic edge. With his witty visual style and clever wordplay, he delves into their lives and emerges with hitherto unknown scenes that show them in a new (and far less serious) light. We go to parties with Kant, visit an art exhibition with Hegel, shop at the supermarket with Nietzsche, and go to the cinema with Deleuze, and celebrate the dream wedding with de Beauvoir. In each case, we come away knowing more about the life, thoughts, and feelings of the philosopher-getting to know them as people rather than as stony-faced figures long since robbed of any existence beyond their ideas. The result is pure fun, but with plenty of insight, too.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 6 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85742-536-2 (9780857425362)
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Persons
Nicolas Mahler is a prolific writer and cartoonist. James Reidel is a poet, biographer and translator who has also translated the works by Thomas Bernhard, Georg Trakl, and Franz Werfel.