- ISBN: 9780802866707 | 0802866700
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/31/2012
OSWALD BAYER is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tbingen, Germany, and director of the Luther Academy Sondershausen-Ratzeburg. He is also an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church of Wrttemberg and was the editor of Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie from 1986 to 2006. His research focuses especially on Luther and Hamann.
| Abbreviations | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Independence and Freedom | p. xii |
| As a Dissenter | p. xiii |
| The Root of Freedom for Criticism | p. xv |
| Contemporary | p. xvii |
| Life and Work | p. 1 |
| Locality, Individuality, Personality | p. 4 |
| Socrates in Königsberg | p. 7 |
| Physiognomy of the Writings | p. 13 |
| Style and Form | p. 19 |
| Rhetoric and Romanticism | p. 19 |
| Speech Is Action | p. 22 |
| Alienation | p. 26 |
| Form: Flying Leaves | p. 28 |
| System as a Hindrance to Truth | p. 31 |
| Documents of Finite Reason | p. 33 |
| Negotiation Discourses | p. 36 |
| The Form of the Review | p. 38 |
| Reviewer with Reservation | p. 39 |
| Original Motif | p. 42 |
| Against Monarchic Reason and Deadly Separation | p. 43 |
| Individuality and Sociality | p. 46 |
| "Thoughts about My Life-Story" | p. 49 |
| Entangled in Histories | p. 51 |
| The Poet of the World | p. 54 |
| God as the Author of My Life History | p. 60 |
| The Bible as Historical A Priori | p. 63 |
| The Modern Concept of Nature in Crisis | p. 67 |
| The Book of Nature and of History | p. 70 |
| The World as Text | p. 72 |
| The Ruined Language of Nature | p. 78 |
| God's Nearness and Distance | p. 78 |
| Tyrannizing and Redivinizing Nature | p. 81 |
| Freedom as a Fundamental Concept of Anthropology (Herder-Hamann) | p. 87 |
| Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language | p. 89 |
| Human and Animal | p. 90 |
| Language as Compensation | p. 92 |
| Awareness as the Fundamental Concept of Herder's Anthropology | p. 93 |
| Remembering and Inventing | p. 95 |
| Hamann's "Philological Ideas" | p. 96 |
| Divine and Human Simultaneously | p. 97 |
| Learning Is Neither Mere Invention nor Mere Remembrance | p. 98 |
| Hamann's Understanding of Learning | p. 100 |
| Freedom Given in Advance | p. 101 |
| Criticism and Politics (Hamann-Herder-Frederick the Great) | p. 104 |
| The Fissure of Sin | p. 106 |
| Judicial and Administrative Dignity | p. 108 |
| Dependence and Autonomy | p. 110 |
| Beyond Materialism and Idealism | p. 112 |
| To Frederick the Great | p. 113 |
| What Is Enlightenment? (Kant-Hamann) | p. 117 |
| Philosophical Claim and Reality | p. 118 |
| Self-inflicted Guardianship | p. 121 |
| Public and Private Reason | p. 123 |
| Immaturity and Guardianship | p. 125 |
| History and Reason (Reimarus-Lessing-Mendelssobn-Hamann) | p. 128 |
| The Age of Criticism | p. 129 |
| The Fragments Dispute | p. 133 |
| Natural and Positive Religion | p. 134 |
| Lessing's Proof of the Spirit and of Power | p. 138 |
| Truth as "Daughter of Time" | p. 141 |
| Historical Truths of Future Times | p. 143 |
| The Old Testament as the Historical A Priori of Knowledge | p. 147 |
| Impure Word and Pure Spirit | p. 151 |
| Reason Is Language | p. 156 |
| (Hamann-Kant) Conflict of Languages | p. 158 |
| Translation as Action | p. 162 |
| God, the Poet | p. 168 |
| Natural Right and Social Life (Mendelssohn and Hamann) | p. 171 |
| Claimant of Right or Trustee of Nature | p. 173 |
| Nature and Society | p. 175 |
| Natural Contract | p. 177 |
| "Essay of a Sibyl on Marriage" | p. 184 |
| God and Sex | p. 187 |
| Sensuousness and Morality | p. 189 |
| Mythical Tale of Self-Knowledge | p. 190 |
| Love and Death | p. 191 |
| Created Time | p. 193 |
| Time and Space | p. 193 |
| Time and Ethos | p. 196 |
| The "Moment" | p. 197 |
| Call and Response | p. 199 |
| The Present as Foundation and Reason for Past and Future | p. 202 |
| The Understanding of Time and the Concept of Science | p. 204 |
| Translators' Epilogue | p. 209 |
| Hamann's Life: A Brief Sketch | p. 211 |
| Against Kant's View of Immaturity | p. 213 |
| Against Kant's Purism of Reason | p. 215 |
| Freeing Theology from Kant | p. 216 |
| The Bible as the Key to Nature and History | p. 218 |
| Hamann's Relevance for Theology Today | p. 221 |
| Appendix: Chronological Table | p. 224 |
| Index of Persons | p. 227 |
| Index of Scripture References | p. 232 |
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