To Hegel, he was a ‘genius’; to Kierkegaard, he was the ‘greatest humorist inChristendom’; to Goethe, he was the ‘brightest mind of his day.’ Though less known than many of his contemporaries, A. G. Hamann is gradually being recognized as one of the most important and original critics of the Enlightenment. After Enlightenment is a comprehensive introduction to this18th-century German philosopher, the ‘founding father’ of what has come to be known as ‘Radical Orthodoxy.’ Focusing upon his engagements with contemporaries, such as Kant, Herder, and Mendelssohn, it also offers a unique perspective on the intellectual debates of the time. INDICE: Introduction.Notorious Darkness: Reading Sibylline Leaves.A Brief History of Scholarship.Hamann and Modern Theology.A Brief Guide to the PresentBook.Part I: The Making of a Christian Socrates.1. Life and Writings (1730-88).The Making of a Man of Letters.Hamanns Conversion.Hamanns Falling Out with Berens.Hamanns Relationship with Kant.2. The London Writings: On the Glory of Trinitarian Condescension.Night Thoughts.Glory In the Rags of Scripture.Biblical Meditations.Reflections on Church Hymns.Fragments and Prophecies.3. A Typological Re-Reading of Socrates: On Faith, Reason, and History.The Prophet and the Idol.From Socratic Irony to Christian Humor.Toward a Philosophy of History.From Socratic Ignorance to Christian Wisdom.Converting Hume: Knowledge By FaithAlone.Two Love Letters to Kant.Part II: Crusades of a Philologist.4. Life andWritings (1760-74).Against the Purification of Language.The Magi and The Knight of Faith.Crusades of a Philologist.On Solomon of Prussia and High School Drama.The Hamann-Herder Connection.New Apology of the Letter h and Other Writings.5. Toward a Christological Poetics: A New Aesthetics of Scripture and Creation.Cloverleaf of Hellenistic Letters: On the Style of Scripture.Aesthetica in nuce: On the Language of Creation.The Dithyrambs of a Christian Dionysus.The Perception of All Things in Christ.Toward a Christological Poetics.6. Correcting a Disciple: Hamann and Herder on the Origin of Language.Hamanns Review of Herders Preisschrift.The Return of Aristobulus.Philological Ideas and Doubts.TheCrusading Knights Last Will and Testament.The Mystery of Language: The Alpha and Omega.Part III: Masks and Mystery Writings.7. Life and Writings (1775-80).Hierophantic Letters.Family Life: Portrait of a Christian Sensualist.Two Mites: On the Tabernacle of Language.8. The Sibyl Speaks: On the Protological and Eschatological Mystery of Marriage.The Mystery of Marriage: A Verum Signaculum Creatoris.Essay of a Sibyl on Marriage.Aprons of Fig Leaves: On Reasons Inveterate Shame.9. Fragments of an Apocryphal Sibyl: On Natural and Apocalyptic Religion.Doubts (about Reason) and Ideas (about the Mystical Body of Christ).Konxompax: An Apocryphal Letter to Lessing.Part IV: Metacritique: Of Reason, Natural Religion, and Secular Politics.10. Life and Writings (1780-84).Hamanns Twins of 1784.Hamann and Jacobi.Divestment and Transfiguration.Metacritical Tubs?.11. Hamanns Metacritique of Kant: Deconstructing the Transcendental Dream.Transcendental Mystique: The First Review of the Critique of Pure Reason.The Metacritique: A Brief History of the Purisms of Reason.The Genealogical Priority ofLanguage.Language as a Sacrament.12. Metacritical Politics: On Mendelssohns Jerusalem and the Modern Secular State.Background: A Synopsis of Mendelssohns Jerusalem.Golgotha and Scheblimini: By a Preacher in the Desert.Built upon Sand: The Babel of Modern Natural Rights.Defending Judaism against Secular Reason:Or the Real Content of the Real Jerusalem.Prospect for Jewish-Christian Dialogue.Part V: A Final Journey: Hamanns Last Will and Testament.13. Life and Writings (1785-88).The Münster Circle.The Dictators of Pure Reason.Portrait of a Christian: Greatness in Knechtsgestalt.Una Sancta Ecclesia.Hamanns Cryptic Final Testament.The Journey Home.Conclusion: After Postmodernity: Hamann before the Postmodern Triumvirate.Hamann and Postmodernity.Hamann before Nietzsche.Hamann before Heidegger.Hamann before Derrida.A Concluding Postscript to Postmodernity.Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6246-3
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha Publicación: 10/10/2008
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