Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies
Illuminating the Magus of the North
Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN: 978-1-032-84930-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The eighteenth-century author and literary critic, Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88), otherwise known as the “Magus of the North,” is arguably the most inscrutable and enigmatic author in the history of German literature. Yet, ironically, the very one known for his darkness and obscurity was widely regarded as a source of light and wisdom.
His “disciples” Herder and Jacobi revered him; Goethe regarded him as “the brightest mind of his time”; Hegel pored over his writings and admired his “penetrating genius”; Kierkegaard regarded him as “the greatest humourist in Christendom”; and, to any number of German Romantics, from Friedrich Schlegel to Jean Paul, he stood above his age, the so-called age of reason and enlightenment, as a genuinely enlightened prophet. But who really was this mysterious “wise man,” and what motivated his idiosyncratic campaign against the rationalism of his day – a campaign that made him seem to critics in his day and our own needlessly obscure and downright irrational? In short, what is it that makes Hamann so controversial – even to the point of eliciting a debate in the New York Review of Books? And what, if anything, does Hamann have to say to us today about reason, revelation, language, poetry, religion, and their connection?
The studies collected here, which will be of interest to students of philosophy, literature, and theology, are intended to answer some of these questions. They also constitute a necessary supplement to the author’s previous work on Hamann, After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J.G. Hamann.
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Academic and Postgraduate
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
1. Reading “Sibylline Leaves”: J. G. Hamann in the History of Ideas
Originally Published as “Reading Sibylline Leaves: J. G. Hamann in the History of Ideas,” in Hamann and the Tradition, edited by Lisa Marie Anderson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012. pp. 5-32.
II: Hermeneutics and Aesthetics
2. The London Writings: The Hermeneutics of Trinitarian Condescension
Originally published as: “Hamann’s London Writings: The Hermeneutics of Trinitarian Condescension.” Pro Ecclesia 14:2 (2005): 191-234.
3. Glory(ing) in the Humility of the Word: The Kenotic Form of Revelation
Originally published as “Glory(ing) in the Humility of the Word: The Kenotic Form of Revelation in J. G. Hamann,” in Letter & Spirit 6 (2010): 141-179.
III: Hamann as a Metacritic of Kant
4. Enlightenment Revisited: Hamann as the First and Best Critic of Kant’s Philosophy
Originally Published as “Enlightenment Revisited: Hamann as the First and Best Critic of Kant’s Philosophy,” in Modern Theology 20 (2004): 291-301.
5. A Radically Orthodox Reformer: J. G. Hamann as a Metacritic of the Enlightenment and Secularization
Originally published “A Radically Orthodox Reformer: J.G. Hamann as a Metacritic of Enlightenment and Secularization.” Modern Theology 33 (2017): 640-677.
IV. Hamann and his “Disciples”
6. Dioscuri: Hamann and Jacobi
Originally published as “Dioscuri: Hamann and Jacobi,” in Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity. Cambridge University Press; 2023:176-199. Edited by Alex Hampton.
7. Hamann before Kierkegaard: A Systematic Theological Oversight
Originally Published as “Hamann before Kierkegaard: A Systematic Theological Oversight.” Pro Ecclesia 16/3 (2007): 65-98.
V. Hamann Today
8. J. G. Hamann as a Radical Reformer: Two Mites Toward a Post-Secular Ecumenical Theology
Originally publsihed as “J. G. Hamann as a Radical Reformer: Two Mites Toward a Post-Secular Ecumenical Theology.” In Multiple Reformations?: The Many Faces and Legacies of the Reformation. Edited by. Jan Stievermann and Randall C. Zachman. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2018. 241-268.
9. After After Enlightenment: Some Final Clarifications
Index
