Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of scholarly interest in the work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), across disciplines. New translations of work by and about Hamann are appearing, as are a number of books and articles on Hamann’s aesthetics, theories of language and sexuality, and unique place in Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thought. Edited by Lisa Marie Anderson, Hamann and the Tradition gathers established and emerging scholars to examine the full range of Hamann’s impact—be it on German Romanticism or on the very practice of theology. Of particular interest to those not familiar with Hamann will be a chapter devoted to examining—or in some cases, placing—Hamann in dialogue with other important thinkers, such as Socrates, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Editor’s Introduction Chapter 1. Situating Hamann John R. Betz, ""Reading ‘Sibylline Leaves’: J. G. Hamann in the History of Ideas"" Kenneth Haynes, ""‘There is an Idol in the Temple of Learning’: Hamann and the History of Philosophy"" Chapter 2. Hamann in Dialogue Gwen Griffith-Dickson, ""God, I & Thou: Hamann and the Personalist Tradition"" Manfred Kuehn, ""Hamann and Kant on the Good Will"" Kelly Dean Jolley, ""Metaschematizing Socrates. Hamann, Kierkegaard and Kant on the Value of the Enlightenment"" Stephen Cole Leach, ""Skepticism and Faith in Hamann and Kierkegaard"" Jonathan Gray, ""Hamann, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein on the Language of Philosophers"" Chapter 3. Hamann’s Place in German Literary History Lori Yamato, ""Rhapsodic Dismemberment: Hamann and the Fable"" Kamaal Haque, ""Hamann, Goethe and the West-östlicher Divan"" Christian Sinn, ""Hallucinating Europe: Hamann and His Impact on German Romantic Drama. Some Critical Remarks on the Writing of Future as Past and Past as Future."" Chapter 4. Hamann and Theology Oswald Bayer, ""God as Author: On the Theological Foundation of Hamann’s Authorial Poetics"" Johannes von Lüpke, ""Metaphysics and Metacritique: Hamann’s Understanding of the Word of God in the Tradition of Lutheran Theology"" Gregory Walter, ""Christ the Hieroglyph: The Prophetic Word between Moses Mendelssohn and Johann Georg Hamann"" Katie Terezakis, ""Is Theology Possible After Hamann?"" Appendices Hamann’s Philosophical and Theological Status: John R. Betz and Katie Terezakis in Dialogue Hamann. A New English Bibliography Note on the Contributors
