released 11/22/2019

Even from the early stages of the Enlightenment, Johann Georg Hamann saw and argued that the project of modernity would lead to its own destruction. A friend of many key Enlightenment figures — including Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn — Hamann insisted that reason could never be separated from embodied experience, and hence could never be free from the realities of history and the claims of human tradition. As an adjunct to our longer Conversation about Hamann with John Betz, theologian Peter Leithart describes some of Hamann’s insights about the nature of language.

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