"Mad Kant" Oil on Canvas 90x120(2022)

"Mad Kant" Oil on Canvas 90x120(2022)

Why didn't Kant go mad? Kant leads to analytical rationalism by determining the limit of thinking in his main work called “Critique of Pure Reason(Kritik der reinen Vernunft)”. In this context, Kant, who can be regarded as the ancestor of the positivist nihilism that prevails with all its vulgarity in our age, constructs the world as a phenomenon that the mind theorizes. This orientation, which postpones the existential uncertainty in the approach of the subject to the object, has turned into a digitized world goal that is read the same by everyone instead of individualist relativism. The obsession with the understood, resolved universe, radicalized by Popper, Russell, and even W. Benjamin, has produced a philosophy that has been pushed into the corner today, a science that has evolved into a technical solution and a world with no hope of being revealed. After all, there is a question we have to ask ourselves; What if Kant could see the world through Munch's eyes, then wouldn't he tear up his work and scream?