After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamann. By John R. Betz
John R. Betz describes Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia as having ‘a highly stylized public, dramatic, gnomic, allusive, oblique, ironic, pseudonymous, prophetic form’ (p. 65) and his Knight of the Rose-Cross's Last Will and Testament as presenting ‘some of the most obscure and baffling prose...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 748-752 |
| Review of: | After Enlightenment (Malden, MA [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) (Pailin, David A.)
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| Summary: | John R. Betz describes Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia as having ‘a highly stylized public, dramatic, gnomic, allusive, oblique, ironic, pseudonymous, prophetic form’ (p. 65) and his Knight of the Rose-Cross's Last Will and Testament as presenting ‘some of the most obscure and baffling prose in all of known world literature’ (p. 158). Since these characteristics are to a large extent typical of his writings, it is not surprising that today the thought of Hamann (who lived from 1730 to 1788) is not widely known, even though he had considerable influence in his day (most famously upon Herder), engaged in debate with such leading figures of the Enlightenment as Kant, Lessing, and Mendelssohn, and was called ‘the Magus of the North’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp108 |