First Things RSS Feed - T. J. Logan https://www.firstthings.com/author/t-j-logan en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:16 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/t-j-logan 60 Johann Georg Hamann, Radical Enlightener https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/03/johann-georg-hamann-radical-enlightener https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/03/johann-georg-hamann-radical-enlightener Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:01:00 -0400 Johann Georg Hamann In 1758 a young, dissolute Prussian named Johann Georg Hamann found himself in a deep despair, wandering lost in the world, searching intensely for the “Light of life.” He found it”or, rather, it found him”in the wonder of the Word made flesh. After his conversion through prayer and the reading of Scripture, he aimed his quill at the foundations of modern philosophy and became, in many senses, the Johann Sebastian Bach of philosophy: “a true pan of harmony and discord, light and darkness, spiritualism and materialism” (as Schelling so perceptively called him).

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