Reviews

Just finished plowing my way through this, and now retracting steps before it's due back at the library. At least the tome returns with a few thumb prints on otherwise snow-white pages. Hamann truly is amazing. Like Joyce, he forces the reader to have an experience of their own. There is a sense of the modern individual psychology here, but obviously well in advance of Freud, and enriched by the classic ideology.
And, like Joyce is often recommended, all language lovers should read this book. I began this study after a Thomist librarian said I might like it because Hamann appears to have had an influence on Kierkegaard.