Aesthetica in nuce

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Aesthetica in nuce is a brief but influential 1762 philosophical treatise by Johann Georg Hamann that critiques Enlightenment rationalism and emphasizes the primacy of language, faith, and aesthetic experience.

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instanceOf essay
philosophical treatise
associatedWith Lutheran intellectual tradition
early German Romantic theology
author Johann Georg Hamann
centralClaim aesthetic and religious experience disclose truth
reason is inseparable from language and historical existence
circulation limited contemporary readership
countryOfOrigin Prussia
criticizes Enlightenment rationalism
emphasizes aesthetic judgment
importance of language for thought
role of faith in human understanding
genre philosophical prose
hasForm aphoristic
fragmentary
hasKeyConcept critique of abstract reason
language as medium of revelation
symbolic character of reality
unity of thought, language, and experience
historicalContext European Enlightenment
influenced Jena Romanticism
surface form: German Romanticism

hermeneutics
influencedBy Christian theology
Enlightenment philosophy
Pietism
language German
laterReception significant influence on later German thinkers
length short treatise
mainTheme aesthetic experience as a mode of knowledge
critique of Enlightenment rationalism
primacy of language
relationship between faith and reason
movement Counter-Enlightenment
notableFor aphoristic style
early critique of autonomous reason
integration of aesthetics and theology
philosophicalDiscipline aesthetics
epistemology
philosophy of language
philosophicalOrientation anti-rationalist
fideist
publicationYear 1762
relatedWorkOfAuthor Biblische Betrachtungen
surface form: Biblical Reflections

Xenophon’s Socratic writings
surface form: Socratic Memorabilia
religiousOrientation Christian
title Aesthetica in nuce self-link

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