• ISSUE 2-1, 2011 • 68KANT CRISISThis study approaches the last days of Immanuel Kantthrough the lens of his contemporary biographers andother correspondents. Among the latter, Kant’s brotherand, subsequently, his brother’s family provide a symptomaticreflection upon Kant’s management of his genealogyand his legacy. Yet behind this body of workis another corpus, one which embodies maternal andpaternal legacies that are not readily subsumed by Oedipusor Kant’s philosophy. This work (of art) is Kant’sown body or corpus, which he painstakingly maintainedand which provided a case study for his refelctions onpreventive medicine in The Conflict of the Faculties.William H. Carter studied at the University of Virginia,the University of Heidelberg, and earned his Ph.D. atthe University of California, Santa Barbara. He taughtGerman for three years at Tulane University and recentlyreturned to the Department of World Languagesand Cultures at Iowa State University, where he beganhis teaching career. His current book project is titled“Devilish Details: Goethe’s Public Service and PoliticalEconomy.”Julian Fickler attends the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe,class of Helmut Dorner. He is the recipient of aprestigious fellowship award bestowed by the Künstlerförderungdes Cusanuswerks Bonn. He has exhibitedsolo locally and in group at venues in Berlin and Hamburg.