This article by Robert Tracinski is very good. He points out that Hume woke Kant from his dogmatic slumber and that Kant then devised a fundamental shift away from the Enlightenment, thus setting the stage for Hegel, Marx, the Frankfurt School, and now Wokism.
“This all goes back to Kant’s upside-down idea of what is means to be awakened.
“If you treat ordinary facts and direct observation of the world as if they are dogmas from which we need awakening while you treat esoteric theories as the means of that awakening, you create a system that in fact puts dogma over reality. Hence the fanaticism, the peremptory excommunications, the quasi-religious fervor of the woke crusade.”
(I just love that not only philosophers are arguing about Kant but wide swathes of people on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets. Those who still subscribe to the view that Kant is a champion of reason and the Enlightenment should give that interpretation a re-examination.)
My sustained argument about Kant’s so-called “Copernican Revolution” away from objectivity to subjectivity is in Chapter Two of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: print and e-book. audio-book, translations.
Update: Tracinski and I discussed Kant, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, and Wokeness as part of this Current Events panel.