The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism

by Isaiah Berlin

Book Overview

J.G. Hamann (1730-88) was a solitary and idiosyncratic thinker who lived a life of poverty and neglect. He was admired by Herder, Goethe, and later by Kierkegaard, and Berlin's account shows how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374196575
• ISBN13: 9780374196578
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"