Proceedings of a conference held March 2009 at Hunter College, New York.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1. Situating Hamann -- Reading "Sibylline leaves": J. G. Hamann in the history of ideas / John R. Betz -- "There is an idol in the temple of learning": Hamann and the history of philosophy / Kenneth Haynes -- Part 2. Hamann in dialogue -- God, I, and Thou: Hamann and the personalist tradition / Gwen Griffith-Dickson -- Hamann and Kant on the good will / Manfred Kuehn -- Metaschematizing Socrates: Hamann, Kierkegaard, and Kant on the value of the Enlightenment / Kelly Dean Jolley -- Skepticism and faith in Hamann and Kierkegaard / Stephen Cole Leach -- Hamann, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein on the language of philosophers / Jonathan Gray -- Part 3. Hamann's place in German literary history -- Rhapsodic dismemberment: Hamann and the fable / Lori Yamato -- Hamann, Goethe, and the West-eastern divan / Kamaal Haque -- Hallucinating Europe: Hamann and his impact on German Romantic drama / Christian Sinn -- Part 4. Hamann and theology -- God as author: on the theological foundation of Hamann's authorial poetics / Oswald Bayer -- Metaphysics and metacritique: Hamann's understanding of the word of God in the tradition of Lutheran theology / Johannes von Lupke -- Is theology possible after Hamann? / Katie Terezakis.