Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 - June 21, 1788) was a German Pietist Protestant, thinker, and friend of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. His distrust of reason led him to conclude that a childlike faith in God was the only solution to the vexing problems of philosophy. Also known by the epithet Magus of the North, he was one of the precipitating forces for the counter-enlightenment. He was an influence to Herder, Goethe, Jacobi, Hegel and Kierkegaard. Hans Urs von Balthasar devoted a monograph to Hamann in his volume, Studies in Theological Styles: Lay Styles (Volume III in the English language translation of The Glory of the Lord series).

External links

• Entry on Hamann in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

1730 births | 1788 deaths | 18th century philosophers | German philosophers

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