The hoax began in 1995, when Frédéric Pagès, a journalist for the satirical weekly newspaper Le Canard enchaîné (The Chained Duck) and a former professor of philosophy, invented Jean-Baptiste Botul and his chief work, entitled The Sexual Life of Immanuel Kant.
[2] Various authors afterwards referred to this work—some facetiously and some seriously—including the philosopher and TV personality Bernard-Henri Lévy, who quoted from it extensively in his 2010 book On War in Philosophy.
Affiliating himself with the oral tradition in philosophy, he left no official writings; instead, what is known of his thought comes from transcribed speeches and fragments of correspondence.
[8] In 1946 he supposedly emigrated to Paraguay with a hundred German families fleeing the advancing Soviet armies, and there he is said to have founded a town, 'Nueva Königsberg', governed by the principles of Kantian philosophy.
This includes most prominently The Sexual Life of Immanuel Kant as well as Nietzsche and the Noonday Demon; Landru: The Precursor of Feminism; and Soft Metaphysics.