New PDF release: Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language (Cambridge Texts

By Kenneth Haynes

Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) is an enormous determine not just in German philosophy but additionally in literature and spiritual background. In his personal time he wrote penetrating criticisms of Herder, Kant, Mendelssohn, and different Enlightenment thinkers; after his dying he was once an incredible determine for Goethe, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and others. It used to be basically within the 20th century, besides the fact that, that the entire and radical quantity of his 'linguistic' critique of philosophy was once well-known. This 2007 quantity offers a translation of a big variety of his essays, together with either well-known and lesser-known works. Hamann's enigmatic prose-style used to be intentionally at odds with Enlightenment assumptions approximately language, and a whole equipment of annotation explains the various allusions in his essays. the quantity is done through a ancient and philosophical advent and proposals for additional reading.

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