Robert Alan Sparling

Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

SparlingRobert Alan:

Robert Alan Sparling is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Studies at McGill University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442690356
• Artikelnr.: 52750346

Autorenporträt

Robert Alan Sparling

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Citation
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I : Enlightenment and Hamann’s Reaction
1. Introduction: The Enlightenment as a Historical Movement and
Political Project
o Enlightenment as a Contested Concept
o Hamann and His Age
2. Transfiguring the Enlightenment: Hamann and the Problem of Public
Reason
o Public, Private, and the Unmündige: The Closed and the Open in
‘Public Reason’
o Bon Sens and the Impersonal Public in Public Reason
o The Personal and Its Relationship to Poetry, Myth, and
‘Metaschematism'
o Poetry, Philosophy, and Public Discourse: Aufklärung oder
Verklärung
PART II : The Politics of Metacritique: Hamann contra Kant
1. Critique and Metacritique: Kant and Hamann
o Metakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft: Exegesis
2. Varieties of Copernican Turn
o Did Hamann Miss His Mark?
o The a Priori and Language
3. The Ideas of God and the Person
o The Divine Idea
o The Soul and the Person
o The Soul in Community: Dignity, Autonomy
o Conclusion
PART III : Language and the City in Modern Natural Law: Hamann’s
Controversy with Mendelssohn
1. Leviathan and Jerusalem: Rights and ‘the Laws of Wisdom and Goodness’
o Leviathan and Jerusalem
o Hamann and Natural Rights
o Divine Law, Property, and Justice
o Conclusion: Rights, Community and Leviathan
2. Faith, Inside and Out: Convictions versus Actions, Eternity versus
History
o The Externals
o Hamann on History and Eternity, External and Internal
o Liberal Peace and Illiberal Tension: Tolerance versus Tolerance
3. Language and Society
o Mendelssohn on the Limits of Language
o Hamann on the Priority of Language
o Appendix: Hamann and Judaism
PART IV : Practical Reflections of an Impractical Man: Hamann contra
Frederick II
1. The Language of Enlightenment and the Practice of Despotism: J.G.
Hamann’s Polemics against Frederick the Great
o Enlightened Despotism
o Frederick and the Politics of Enlightenment: Manufacturing
Prussians
o Hamann’s Relationship with Royal Power
o Theory and Practice
o What Is to Be Done?
PART V : Aesthetics: Hamann’s Anti-Artistic Aestheticism
1. Aesthetic, All Too Aesthetic: Hamann on the Battle between Poetry and
Philosophy
o Being and Becoming: Hamann’s Ambiguous Relationship to
Platonism
o Passions, Sexuality, and the Body
o Creativity and Genius
o Poetic Reception: Hamann on Enlightenment Taste
o ‘Only a God Can Save Us’
o Neither Art Nor Philosophy: Assessing Hamann’s Foundational
Aesthetics
o Conclusion
2. Conclusion
Bibliography

Rezensionen

'This book is a fine piece of scholarship and will undoubtedly contribute to the continued interest in Hamann in years to come' -- F. Corey Roberts German Quarterly; Spring 2012