Byline: Roland Bertens
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Using Philosophy as a Weapon Against Itself. Johann Georg Hamann and the Birth of ‘Metacritique’
By Roland Bertens With the publication in 1781 of his Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant tried to prove that philosophical reason could be a stand-alone source of knowledge. Among the many followers and detractors immediately reacting to the first step Kant made on the road to ‘German Idealism’, one relatively unknown thinker should be…