When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early...
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following...
English summary: The author Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) from Konigsberg was a dialogical thinker. He was inspired and challenged in diverse ways by contemporary literature, but his thoughts were also an inspiration and a challenge to his dialogue partners. This is reflected particularly in his correspondence with Kant, Herder, Jacobi, Lavater, Claudius and others. Hamann and his correspondents struggled with fundamental questions of human existence between the poles of everyday experience and wisdom, sensuality and reason. The contributions to this volume examine his correspondence from a...
English summary: The author Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) from Konigsberg was a dialogical thinker. He was inspired and challenged in diverse ways b...
