German philosopher Immanuel Kant had a complicated view of the writings of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. Although Kant wrote a book that was harshly satiric of Swedenborg's ideas (Traume eines Geistersehers, or Dreams of a Spirit-Seer in English), later in life he appeared to reverse this opinion. Florschutz discusses this tension in Kant's thought in this short monograph.

Gottlieb Florschutz earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1991. His dissertation forms the foundation of the monograph Swedenborg and Kant: Emanuel Swedenborg's Mystical View of Humankind and the Dual Nature of Humankind in Immanuel Kant.