The Last Days of Immanuel Kant

Billed as an original piece when it appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in February 1827, The Last Days of Immanuel Kant is largely De Quincey's translation and embellishment of the account of the theologian Ehregott Andreas Wasianski, the amanuensis, friend, and caretaker of Kant during his last years. The version of the text published here closely follows the version published in De Quincey’s Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Volume II (1853), while in several passages it follows the revised version printed in Chiefly Narrative (1854) by James Hogg.