Hamann's Prophetic Mission - Timothy Beech
A Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Englightenment
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^DJohann Georg Hamann (1730-88) was one of the most radical and sophisticated critics of the German Enlightenment. The three late works ^GKonxompax^g, ^GMetakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft^g and ^GGolgatha und Scheblimini!^g, written between 1779 and 1784, are polemics against iconic texts by the Enlightenment luminaries Lessing, Kant and Mendelssohn. This diverse and rich material, ranging from the ^GFragmentenstreit ^gto Kant's first ^GCritique^g, is refracted through Hamann's radical Lutheranism, with freemasonry and the pagan mystery religions adding lurid apocalyptic highlights. Hamann's idiosyncratic style and heavily intertextual manner of composition give his works a fascinating and teasing complexity and put his writing at odds with the period's preferred ideals of ease and elegance. For these reasons, he is a standing provocation to our assumptions about the 18th century. ^G190p (Maney Publishing 2010)^g
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2009 Uitgever: Taylor & Francis Group 190 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1906540225 ISBN-13: 9781906540227Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Series Texts and Dissertations vol. 74 (Modern Humanities Research Association) and Bithell Series of Dissertation (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, university of London. Bound in boards, 182 pp., index, bibliography, 17x25x1 cm, as new. [Auteur: Beech, Timothy] [Uitgever: Maney Publishing: 2010] [Titel: Hamann's Prophetic Mission: A genetic study of three late works against the Enlightenment]
