Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project

Sparling, Robert Alan

University of Toronto Press（2011/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442642157
• DDC分類 193

Full Description

Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) was a German philosopher who offered in his writings a radical critique of the Enlightenment's reverence for reason. A pivotal figure in the Sturm und Drang movement, his thought influenced such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder. As a friend of Immanuel Kant, Hamann was the first writer to comment on the Critique of Pure Reason, and his work foreshadows the linguistic turn in philosophy as well as numerous elements of twentieth century hermeneutics and existentialism.

Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project addresses Hamann's oeuvre from the perspective of political philosophy, focusing on his views concerning the public use of reason, social contract theory, autonomy, aesthetic morality and the politics of 'taste,' and the technocratic ideal of enlightened despotism. Robert Alan Sparling situates Hamann's work historically, elucidates his somewhat difficult writing, and argues for his relevance in the ongoing culture wars over the merits of the Enlightenment project.

Contents

Note on Citation
Acknowledgements
Preface

PART I : Enlightenment and Hamann's Reaction



Introduction: The Enlightenment as a Historical Movement and Political Project

Enlightenment as a Contested Concept
Hamann and His Age


Transfiguring the Enlightenment: Hamann and the Problem of Public Reason

Public, Private, and the UnmÜndige: The Closed and the Open in 'Public Reason'
Bon Sens and the Impersonal Public in Public Reason
The Personal and Its Relationship to Poetry, Myth, and 'Metaschematism'
Poetry, Philosophy, and Public Discourse: AufklÄrung oder VerklÄrung



PART II : The Politics of Metacritique: Hamann contra Kant



Critique and Metacritique: Kant and Hamann

Metakritik Über den Purismum der Vernunft: Exegesis


Varieties of Copernican Turn

Did Hamann Miss His Mark?
The a Priori and Language


The Ideas of God and the Person

The Divine Idea
The Soul and the Person
The Soul in Community: Dignity, Autonomy
Conclusion



PART III : Language and the City in Modern Natural Law: Hamann's Controversy with Mendelssohn



Leviathan and Jerusalem: Rights and 'the Laws of Wisdom and Goodness'

Leviathan and Jerusalem
Hamann and Natural Rights
Divine Law, Property, and Justice
Conclusion: Rights, Community and Leviathan


Faith, Inside and Out: Convictions versus Actions, Eternity versus History

The Externals
Hamann on History and Eternity, External and Internal
Liberal Peace and Illiberal Tension: Tolerance versus Tolerance


Language and Society

Mendelssohn on the Limits of Language
Hamann on the Priority of Language
Appendix: Hamann and Judaism



PART IV : Practical Reflections of an Impractical Man: Hamann contra Frederick II



The Language of Enlightenment and the Practice of Despotism: J.G. Hamann's Polemics against Frederick the Great

Enlightened Despotism
Frederick and the Politics of Enlightenment: Manufacturing Prussians
Hamann's Relationship with Royal Power
Theory and Practice
What Is to Be Done?



PART V : Aesthetics: Hamann's Anti-Artistic Aestheticism



Aesthetic, All Too Aesthetic: Hamann on the Battle between Poetry and Philosophy

Being and Becoming: Hamann's Ambiguous Relationship to Platonism
Passions, Sexuality, and the Body
Creativity and Genius
Poetic Reception: Hamann on Enlightenment Taste
'Only a God Can Save Us'
Neither Art Nor Philosophy: Assessing Hamann's Foundational Aesthetics
Conclusion


Conclusion

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