Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy

Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. And this is not just because of its reception history (i.e., its influence on later German thinkers, such as Goethe, Hamann, Hegel, Herder, Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Kant, Jacobi, Novalis, Schelling, the Schlegels, Schleiermacher, Wieland), but it is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy contains a rich assemblage of ideas and philosophical practices. The book looks specifically at Hemsterhuis' reflections on philosophical style and the strategies he employs to communicate ideas in his late dialogues. Taking seriously Hemsterhuis' newly-published complete correspondence as a significant philosophical text, it contends that Hemsterhuis deserves to be placed alongside Shaftesbury, Hamann, Friedrich Schlegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as one of the preeminent philosophical stylists of modernity. And, in so doing, it aims to bring Hemsterhuis into an conversation with many key concepts in contemporary theory, such as modernity, temporality, Bildung, materialism and technology

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