An interesting, albeit lengthy, account of Kant’s social and romantic interests.

(The essay starts, not aptly, with a famous line of Nietzsche’s from Beyond Good and Evil: “Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been – namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.” But Nietzsche was not thinking of gossip about Kant’s love life: he thinks every great philosopher is driven by some moral purpose, and that moral purpose revelas something about the psychology of the philosopher. The metaphysical and epistemological system is just an elaborate post-hoc rationalization to vindicate the moral purpose–in Kant’s case, of course, to put limits on reason to make room for faith, as Kant finally admits.)