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>have never read kant, though I've always seen him as a supernatural creature, a super human bean, extremely intelligent, due to all the comments I've for years on /lit/, also reading other philosopher's opinions on him, like schopenhauer
>decides to read Quincey's Last Days of Immanuel Kant
>literally cry reading it
>didn't even cry at my granny's and granpa's funeral
I can't even.
anyways, what are the best biographies of some of the greatest men in human kind?
>kant
>schoppy
>mozart
>napoleon
preferably philosophers and musicians, but anything goes, post your favorites

>> No.14728934

>>14728927
Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky.

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>>14728927
>human bean

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>>14728979
I'm not sure where you came from, but you have to go back.

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>>14729038
No, I like it here I'm staying.

>> No.14729210

Henri Perruchot wrote some truly passionate bios about impressionist and post-impressionist painters
Decker's Hermann Hesse
Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh

>> No.14729318

>>14728927
Ive never read Quincy's book, does it deal with Kant's senility? That was a pretty sad affair, Kant must have experienced it as Beethoven experienced his deafness

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>>14729318
yes, as the title suggests, it is about kant's last days. It talks briefly about kant's life in the middle of his life, and then focuses on the decline of his health up to the day of his death. Coincidentally enough, I finished reading it on february 13th, just to find out in the end of the book kant died on february 12th.

It should be noted, though, that this work is like a modified version of Wasianski's work, Wasianski was a close personal friend of Kant. Quincey changed some things, added some others..
it's a very short book, definitely worth it