Why a Booktrail?
Set against the Napoleonic wars, this is a great way of gaining an insight into period of history and in to the person of Immanuel Kant.
Critique of Criminal Reason
What you need to know before your trail
The King of what was Prussia at the time, summons Hanno Stiffeniis, a rural magistrate, to come and help with a series of murders beleaguering his people.
Immanuel Kant an eccentric philosopher is able to help out. As a man of reason, you may think that he would apply logic to the goings on and try to work out a solution and he does bring rationality to the proceedings, but then the suggestion is made that the murders might be part of a plot by Napoleon’s spies to undermine the Prussian King himself?
This is a book of life life and death in early 19th century Prussia.
Travel Guide
This book takes its title from Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Immanuel Kant – interview with the author on the use of Kant in the novel faber.co.uk/michael-gregorio
Kaliningrad used to be Königsberg in Germany. The cathedral is located on Kant island in the Pregel river.
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