Johann Georg Hamann
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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
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.