Johann Georg Hamann

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Johann Georg Hamann

Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 - June 21, 1788) was an important philosopher of the German Enlightenment and "Sturm und Drang" movement. He was Pietist Protestant, and a friend (while being an intellectual enemy) of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. He was also a musician-lutenist, having studied this instrument with Timofey Belogradsky, a Ukrainian virtuoso then living in Königsberg.

His distrust of reason and the Enlightenment led him to conclude that faith in God was the only solution to the vexing problems of philosophy. Hamann was greatly influenced by Hume's writings, and famously used the image of Socrates, who often claimed not to know anything, in his Socratic Memorabilia, an essay in which Hamann is critical of the Enlightenment's dependence on reason. Also known by the epithet Magus of the North, he was one of the precipitating forces for the counter-enlightenment. He was an influence to Herder, Goethe, Jacobi, Hegel and Kierkegaard. Hans Urs von Balthasar devoted a monograph to Hamann in his volume, Studies in Theological Styles: Lay Styles (Volume III in the English language translation of The Glory of the Lord series).

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