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1 online resource (364 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citation; PART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT AND HAMANN'S REACTION; 1 Introduction: The Enlightenment as a Historical Movement and Political Project; 2 Transfiguring the Enlightenment: Hamann and the Problem of Public Reason; PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF METACRITIQUE: HAMANN CONTRA KANT; 3 Critique and Metacritique: Kant and Hamann; 4 Varieties of Copernican Turn; 5 The Ideas of God and the Person; PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND THE CITY IN MODERN NATURAL LAW: HAMANN'S CONTROVERSY WITH MOSES MENDELSSOHN |
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6 Leviathan and Jerusalem: Rights and 'the Laws of Wisdom and Goodness'7 Faith, Inside and Out: Convictions versus Actions, Eternity versus History; 8 Language and Society; PART FOUR: PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS OF AN IMPRACTICAL MAN: HAMANN CONTRA FREDERICK II; 9 The Language of Enlightenment and the Practice of Despotism: J.G. Hamann's Polemics against Frederick the Great; PART FIVE: AESTHETICS: HAMANN'S ANTI-ARTISTIC AESTHETICISM; 10 Aesthetic, All Too Aesthetic: Hamann on the Battle between Poetry and Philosophy; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M |
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| Summary |
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 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hamann, Johann Georg, 1730-1788.
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| SUBJECT |
Hamann, Johann Georg, 1730-1788 fast |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442690356 |
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1442690356 |
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