The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in

The Immanent Word establishes that the philosophical study of language inaugurated in the 1759 works of Hamann and Lessing marks a paradigm shift in modern philosophy; it analyzes the transformation of that shift in works of Herder, Kant, Fichte, Novalis and Schlegel. It contends that recent studies of early linguistic philosophy obscure the most relevant commission of its thinkers, arguing against the theological appropriation of Hamann by John Milbank; against the expressive appropriation Hamann and Herder by Christina Lafont and Charles Taylor; and against Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy’s uncritical championing of Schlegel’s ideological position.

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Radical Tradition: Hamann and Lessing
Hamann's Challenge	p. 25
Lessing's Letters and Demands	p. 47
The Divided Heart of Naturalism: Herder
Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language	p. 75
Herder and Kant	p. 125
Jena Romanticism: The Promise of Logology and The Production of Incomprehensibility
Fichte on Idealism and Language	p. 159
Novalis and the Renewal of Logology	p. 173
Schlegel's On Incomprehensibility and Ideas	p. 207
Concluding Remarks	p. 229
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 259
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The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801

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