Kant’s Answer to ‘What is Enlightenment?’

A Close Reading of Immanuel Kant’s essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’

(Picture: Immanuel Kant / Source Credit: Bernard Gaida)

Immanuel Kant’s book of essays titled: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays was published in 1784. Kant was born and spent most of his life in Konigsberg, Prussia (now known as Kaliningrad in Russia) in 1724 and died in 1804. The book is arguably as important today as it was back in the time when it was written — famously known as…