Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) remains one of the most influential and yet least understood figures in the history of German thought and literature. Throughout his life, he had major influence on figures as diverse as Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Kierkegaard, and a h…
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Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) remains one of the most influential and yet least understood figures in the history of German thought and literature. Throughout his life, he had major influence on figures as diverse as Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Kierkegaard, and a h…
To know the nature of a man, noted J.G. Hamann in 1759 in his 'Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments, ' you must inquire about the conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present volume reveal Hamann's position at the crossroads of different social constellations. They raise new q…
To know the nature of a man, noted J.G. Hamann in 1759 in his "Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments," you must inquire about the conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present volume reveal Hamann's position at the crossroads of different social constellations. They raise new qu…
Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project addresses Hamann's oeuvre from the perspective of political philosophy, focusing on his views concerning the public use of reason, social contract theory, autonomy, aesthetic morality and the politics of 'taste, ' and the technoc…
"Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) was a German philosopher who offered in his writings a radical critique of the Enlightenment's reverence for reason. A pivotal figure in the Sturm und Drang movement, his thought influenced such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Go…