Hamann's Prophetic Mission: A Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment

Tim Beech

Hamann's Prophetic Mission
A Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment

Timothy Beech

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Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88), German philosopher

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 74

Bithell Series of Dissertations 34

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies

23 April 2010 • 190pp

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Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) was one of the most radical and sophisticated critics of the German Enlightenment. The three late works Konxompax, Metakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft and Golgatha und Scheblimini!, written between 1779 and 1784, are polemics against iconic texts by the Enlightenment luminaries Lessing, Kant and Mendelssohn. This diverse and rich material, ranging from the Fragmentenstreit to Kant's first Critique, is refracted through Hamann's radical Lutheranism, with freemasonry and the pagan mystery religions adding lurid apocalyptic highlights. Hamann's idiosyncratic style and heavily intertextual manner of composition give his works a fascinating and teasing complexity and put his writing at odds with the period's preferred ideals of ease and elegance. For these reasons, he is a standing provocation to our assumptions about the 18th century.

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i-iv	Front Matter Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.1	Cite
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v-vi	Table of Contents Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.2	Cite
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vii-viii	Preface Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.3	Cite
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1-10	Introduction Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.4	Cite
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11-40	I ‘Moses brauchte nicht seinethalben, sondern des Volkes wegen, eine Decke’: the origins and aims of Hamann’s style and Autorschaft Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.5	Cite
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41-80	II Konxompax Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.6	Cite
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81-124	III The Metakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft in its genetic and intellectual context Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.7	Cite
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125-164	IV Golgatha und Scheblimini! Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.8	Cite
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165-174	Conclusion Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.9	Cite
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175-180	Bibliography Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.10	Cite
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181-182	Index Tim Beech doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b8zz.11	Cite
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Hamann's Prophetic MissionA Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment

Timothy Beech

Hamann's Prophetic Mission
A Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment