Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamannwas 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; he views him as less the proto-Romantic that Herder presented, and more a premodern-postmodern thinker who brought the consequences of Lutheran theology...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 August 1730
CountryGermany