Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. A Note on Citation xxi
6. Part One. Enlightenment and Hamann’s Reaction
7. 1. Introduction: The Enlightenment as a Historical Movement and Political Project 3
8. 2. Transfiguring the Enlightenment: Hamann and the Problem of Public Reason 25
9. Part Two. The Politics of Metacritique: Hamann contra Kant
10. 3. Critique and Metacritique: Kant and Hamann 57
11. 4. Varieties of Copernican Turn 76
12. 5. The Ideas of God and the Person 85
13. Part Three. Language and the City in Modern Natural Law: Hamann’s Controversy with Moses Mendelssohn
14. 6. Leviathan and Jerusalem: Rights and ‘the Laws of Wisdom and Goodness’ 105
15. 7. Faith, Inside and Out: Convictions versus Actions, Eternity versus History 121
16. 8. Language and Society 139
17. Part Four. Practical Reflections of an Impractical Man: Hamann contra Frederick II
18. 9. The Language of Enlightenment and the Practice of Despotism: J.G. Hamann’s Polemics against Frederick the Great 159
19. Part Five. Aesthetics: Hamann’s Anti-Artistic Aestheticism
20. 10. Aesthetic, All Too Aesthetic: Hamann on the Battle between Poetry and Philosophy 195
21. 11. Conclusion 224
22. Notes 233
23. Bibliography 325
24. Index 337