Hamann and the Tradition

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of scholarly interest in the work of Johann Georg Hamann (17301788), across disciplines. New translations of work by and about Hamann are appearing, as are a number of books and ar­ticles on Hamanns 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 Hamanns im­pactbe 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 examiningor in some cases, placingHamann in dialogue with other important thinkers, such as Socrates, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. See more