Philosophical Obscurantism: Prolegomena to Hamann's Views on Language
The oracular writings of the Christian Socrates of the eighteenth century, Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), have attracted a number of important philosophers, theologians, and men of letters since the time of Immanuel Kant. Some insist that Hamann was a profound and heroic mystic, and some conclud...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1969]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1969, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 247-274 |
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| Summary: | The oracular writings of the Christian Socrates of the eighteenth century, Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), have attracted a number of important philosophers, theologians, and men of letters since the time of Immanuel Kant. Some insist that Hamann was a profound and heroic mystic, and some conclude that he was an impossible obscurantist. A figure of conspicuous protest against prevailing Enlightenment attitudes, Hamann's own views exhibit a strange alliance between religious (Lutheran) faith and sceptical (Humean) empiricism. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000032351 |