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Johann Georg Hamann Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Germany
  • Born: Aug 27, 1730
  • Died: Jun 21, 1788

Johann Georg Hamann was 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, less the proto-Romantic that Herder presented and more a premodern-postmodern thinker who brought the consequences of Lutheran theology to bear upon the burgeoning Enlightenment and especially in reaction to Kant. Goethe and Kierkegaard were among those who considered him to be the finest mind of his time.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. poetry

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. wisdom

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