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Prussia's last nine kings were crowned there. Philosopher Immanuel Kant had been born there, hardly ventured outside, and been buried there. Generations of German Junkers had called the city their home. Since 1255 Königsberg, more than any other German town, had stood for Prussian traditions. Last week Prussia's new masters made a clean break with tradition, renamed the city Kaliningrad...
...Albert was reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Soon he discovered Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...
...terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that of the German intellectual middle class." After his university career-which included lectures on subjects such as "The use of the comma by Lessing"-Franz had progressed so far into the abstract that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant appeared to him to be "escape literature." Suicide was the only logical next step. With the aid of a world-weary student of Sanskrit, young Schoenberner plotted a chain of thought of such intellectual intensity that it "would . . . dissolve even the body ... by pure force of thinking." When his body...
...time he was 24, Schweitzer had published a volume on Immanuel Kant, earned two doctorates (theology and philosophy) at Strasbourg University, and become a curate. His superiors had to order him to preach for a full 20 minutes when parishioners complained that Schweitzer just "stopped speaking when he found he had nothing more to say." As a sideline, he wrote (in French) a definitive study of Bach, and rewrote it from scratch in German, because the idea of mere translation bored...