A Contemporary in Dissent

by Bayer, Oswald; Harrisville, Roy A.; Mattes, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780802866707
• ISBN10: 0802866700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

OSWALD BAYER is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tbingen, Germany, and director of the Luther Academy Sondershausen-Ratzeburg. He is also an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church of Wrttemberg and was the editor of Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie from 1986 to 2006. His research focuses especially on Luther and Hamann.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Independence and Freedom	p. xii
As a Dissenter	p. xiii
The Root of Freedom for Criticism	p. xv
Contemporary	p. xvii
Life and Work	p. 1
Locality, Individuality, Personality	p. 4
Socrates in Königsberg	p. 7
Physiognomy of the Writings	p. 13
Style and Form	p. 19
Rhetoric and Romanticism	p. 19
Speech Is Action	p. 22
Alienation	p. 26
Form: Flying Leaves	p. 28
System as a Hindrance to Truth	p. 31
Documents of Finite Reason	p. 33
Negotiation Discourses	p. 36
The Form of the Review	p. 38
Reviewer with Reservation	p. 39
Original Motif	p. 42
Against Monarchic Reason and Deadly Separation	p. 43
Individuality and Sociality	p. 46
"Thoughts about My Life-Story"	p. 49
Entangled in Histories	p. 51
The Poet of the World	p. 54
God as the Author of My Life History	p. 60
The Bible as Historical A Priori	p. 63
The Modern Concept of Nature in Crisis	p. 67
The Book of Nature and of History	p. 70
The World as Text	p. 72
The Ruined Language of Nature	p. 78
God's Nearness and Distance	p. 78
Tyrannizing and Redivinizing Nature	p. 81
Freedom as a Fundamental Concept of Anthropology (Herder-Hamann)	p. 87
Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language	p. 89
Human and Animal	p. 90
Language as Compensation	p. 92
Awareness as the Fundamental Concept of Herder's Anthropology	p. 93
Remembering and Inventing	p. 95
Hamann's "Philological Ideas"	p. 96
Divine and Human Simultaneously	p. 97
Learning Is Neither Mere Invention nor Mere Remembrance	p. 98
Hamann's Understanding of Learning	p. 100
Freedom Given in Advance	p. 101
Criticism and Politics (Hamann-Herder-Frederick the Great)	p. 104
The Fissure of Sin	p. 106
Judicial and Administrative Dignity	p. 108
Dependence and Autonomy	p. 110
Beyond Materialism and Idealism	p. 112
To Frederick the Great	p. 113
What Is Enlightenment? (Kant-Hamann)	p. 117
Philosophical Claim and Reality	p. 118
Self-inflicted Guardianship	p. 121
Public and Private Reason	p. 123
Immaturity and Guardianship	p. 125
History and Reason (Reimarus-Lessing-Mendelssobn-Hamann)	p. 128
The Age of Criticism	p. 129
The Fragments Dispute	p. 133
Natural and Positive Religion	p. 134
Lessing's Proof of the Spirit and of Power	p. 138
Truth as "Daughter of Time"	p. 141
Historical Truths of Future Times	p. 143
The Old Testament as the Historical A Priori of Knowledge	p. 147
Impure Word and Pure Spirit	p. 151
Reason Is Language	p. 156
(Hamann-Kant) Conflict of Languages	p. 158
Translation as Action	p. 162
God, the Poet	p. 168
Natural Right and Social Life (Mendelssohn and Hamann)	p. 171
Claimant of Right or Trustee of Nature	p. 173
Nature and Society	p. 175
Natural Contract	p. 177
"Essay of a Sibyl on Marriage"	p. 184
God and Sex	p. 187
Sensuousness and Morality	p. 189
Mythical Tale of Self-Knowledge	p. 190
Love and Death	p. 191
Created Time	p. 193
Time and Space	p. 193
Time and Ethos	p. 196
The "Moment"	p. 197
Call and Response	p. 199
The Present as Foundation and Reason for Past and Future	p. 202
The Understanding of Time and the Concept of Science	p. 204
Translators' Epilogue	p. 209
Hamann's Life: A Brief Sketch	p. 211
Against Kant's View of Immaturity	p. 213
Against Kant's Purism of Reason	p. 215
Freeing Theology from Kant	p. 216
The Bible as the Key to Nature and History	p. 218
Hamann's Relevance for Theology Today	p. 221
Appendix: Chronological Table	p. 224
Index of Persons	p. 227
Index of Scripture References	p. 232
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