Johann Georg Hamann
Philosopher, Author
1730 – 1788
Who was Johann Georg Hamann?
Johann Georg Hamann was a German philosopher, whose work was used by his student J.G. Herder as a main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment. However, recent scholarship such as that by theologian Oswald Bayer places Hamann into a more nebulous category of theologian and philologist, less the proto-Romantic that Herder presented and more a premodern-postmodern thinker who brought the consequences of Lutheran theology to bear upon the burgeoning Enlightenment and especially in reaction to Kant. Goethe and Kierkegaard were among those who considered him to be the finest mind of his time.
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- Born
- Aug 27, 1730
Königsberg - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Königsberg
- Lived in
- East Prussia
- Died
- Jun 21, 1788
Münster
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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