Enlightenment Germany punished its boldest philosophers with censorship and lost professorships.

Evidence

At the end of the century of Enlightenment, Kant was reprimanded and had his writings banned for offending against religious dogma; Fichte lost his professorship during the controversy over atheism; Hegel wrote his most daring works either before he joined the university or after he had left it during the confusion of the Napoleonic wars . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the history of the German university and to the recurring pattern of state censorship of critical thought. — connects to: Sincere Nazi intellectuals were discarded by the regime
• CANDY: A tidy meme-ready triad: Kant banned, Fichte fired, Hegel writing only outside the university.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sincere Nazi intellectuals were discarded by the regime