Early modern · 1730–1788
Who did Johann Georg Hamann influence?
Students and legacy
The Magus of the North: language, not reason, is the organ of truth.
Johann Georg Hamann influenced Johann Gottfried Herder and Søren Kierkegaard. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Johann Georg Hamann?
Johann Georg Hamann of Königsberg, known as the "Magus of the North", was a Lutheran philosopher whose work his student Herder made the backbone of the Sturm und Drang movement. He introduced his fellow townsman Kant to Hume and Rousseau.
He drew on Hume but used him to argue for Christianity, not against it. Goethe and Kierkegaard thought him the finest mind of his time, and long before the linguistic turn he held that the theory of knowledge should give way to the philosophy of language.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Johann Georg Hamann influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Johann Georg Hamann.
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
Two steps away from Johann Georg Hamann
The second generation
Contemporaries of Johann Georg Hamann
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Johann Georg Hamann, with no direct line between them.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–1781
- Moses Mendelssohn 1729–1786
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Hryhorii Skovoroda 1722–1794
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 1743–1819
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 1714–1780
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784
Johann Georg Hamann by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 70
- Wikipedia languages
- 37 — #32 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Johann Georg Hamann
- Who influenced Johann Georg Hamann?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Johann Georg Hamann.
- Who did Johann Georg Hamann influence?
- Johann Gottfried Herder and Søren Kierkegaard.
- When did Johann Georg Hamann live?
- 1730–1788. The map files Johann Georg Hamann under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Johann Georg Hamann card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Johann Georg Hamann in 37 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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