Fliegender Brief

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Fliegender Brief is a short philosophical work by Johann Georg Hamann that exemplifies his dense, aphoristic style and critique of Enlightenment rationalism.

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instanceOf philosophical work
short work
associatedWith German Enlightenment
Lutheran pietism
author Johann Georg Hamann
centralConcern critique of autonomous reason
relation between faith and knowledge
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticizes Enlightenment concept of reason
rationalist epistemology
critiques Enlightenment rationalism
emphasizes contingency of human reason
dependence on divine revelation
historicity of understanding
genre philosophy
hasForm letter
short prose text
hasPhilosophicalTheme critique of rationalism
faith and revelation
language and understanding
limits of reason
hasReception important in Hamann scholarship
influenced Kierkegaardian existential thought
later German Romanticism
language German
literaryStyle aphoristic style
dense style
modeOfArgument fragmentary argumentation
indirect communication
movement Counter-Enlightenment
period 18th century
philosophicalPosition anti-rationalism
emphasis on faith over reason
philosophicalTradition Christian philosophy
early existential tendency
relatedWorkOfAuthor Aesthetica in nuce
Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten
titleLanguage German
titleTranslation Flying Letter
usesDevice biblical allusion
irony
paradox
workOf Johann Georg Hamann

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