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Immanuel
Kant by the most famous Austrian novelist and playwright of the
last century, Thomas Bernhard, is theatrical fantasy. The story is
removed from history and reality: the renowned German philosopher
Immanuel Kant travels by ship to America (along with his wife, a
servant and a parrot who has extra-ordinary gift of storing in its
brain whatever Kant says) to have carried out a glaucoma operation
and to receive the honorary doctorate degree by Columbia University.
Despite his hate for America, he agrees on an exchange deal: he
brings America reason and America gives him his eyesight. On his
arrival he is welcomed by lunacy doctors and brought to a mental
hospital. According to Thomas Bernhard, the status of a philosopher
in history is same the status of a patient in a madhouse.
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