"[…] only a single cadence of a few notes […]"?-Johann Georg Hamann’s Religious Contact With the Baltic Region
In his early years as a tutor, unorthodox Lutheran thinker Johann Georg Hamann travelled the Baltic countries. In his own work, in particular in the Aesthetica in nuce, he interpreted the folk songs of the Latvian peasants as an authentic expression of religiosity unspoiled by philosophical sophisti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 6 |
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Hamann, Johann Georg 1730-1788
/ Latvia
/ Farmer
/ Folk song
/ Religious geography
/ Enlightenment
/ History 1752-1767
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBK Europe (East) |
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Latvian poetry
B Popular Enlightenment B Language B Dainas B Riga B Johann Georg Hamann B Gotthard Friedrich Stender |
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| Summary: | In his early years as a tutor, unorthodox Lutheran thinker Johann Georg Hamann travelled the Baltic countries. In his own work, in particular in the Aesthetica in nuce, he interpreted the folk songs of the Latvian peasants as an authentic expression of religiosity unspoiled by philosophical sophistication. As a radical critic of enlightenment thought, Hamann portrayed the Latvian peasants as religiously complete individuals characterized by their particular locality. Thus, they would not gain anything by generalisation suggested by proponents of popular enlightenment, such as Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714-1796). Thus, Hamann posits a contact between universal (crypto-)religion of enlightenment ideology and individually localised religious conscience, exemplified in the Latvian peasant. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.46586/er.14.2023.10918 |