Talk politics.

A debate on Immanuel Kant's purported racism is now underway in Germany, a local historian named Michael Zeuske having stated in an interview for Deutschlandradio Kultur that in his anthropological works, the philosopher had actually laid the foundations of European racism. The historian said he was hoping the protests now sweeping across the US, UK and elsewhere, knocking down monuments, to not just pass by and be forgotten, but really start a cultural revolution.

The topic of the racism element in Kant's works is now being active in the public discourse and especially among academics, who are questioning some of the ideas of the philosopher who was instrumental for the formation of modern thinking.



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