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Hamann’s Ladder and Kant’s Schemata

Jeremiah A. Reyes

Discipline: Philosophy

 

Abstract:

Who was Johann Georg Hamann? Perhaps more familiar is his close friend and contemporary Immanuel Kant, who wrote the Critique of Pure Reason. But Hamann was also an original and influential German philosopher admired by the likes of Hegel, Goethe and Kierkegaard, and who reacted passionately against the philosophy of Kant through his Metacritique on the Purism of Reason, where he presents an alternative worldview which anticipates much of the 20th Century ordinary language movement. Here we set the two philosophers side by side in an effort to better understand their contributions to the history of philosophy, both on a general and technical level.