CFP: "Hamann and the Tradition," CUNY, Hunter College, March 20-21, 2009.

Update 2: Notes on the conference by Jonathan Gray are available here: http://jonathangray.org/2009/06/10/the-magus-in-new-york/. Update: The conference homepage, including the programme, is here: http://sapientia.hunter.cuny.edu/~german/Conf%20Home.html. Original Post (August 27, 2008): Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of scholarly interest in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, an interest which is spreading among scholars of world literature, European history, philosophy, theology, and religious studies. New translations of work by and about Hamann are appearing, as are a number of books and articles on Hamann’s aesthetics, theories of language and sexuality, and unique place in Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment thought. As such, the time has come to reexamine, in light of recent work, the legacy of Hamann’s writings, which have influenced such diverse thinkers as J. G. von Herder, F. H. Jacobi, J. W. von Goethe, G. W. F. Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, and Walter Benjamin, to name only an obvious few. We invite papers which investigate or problematize in new ways any underappreciated aspect of Hamann’s impact across the centuries, be it upon a thinker or work, a historical tradition, or even an entire branch of knowledge. Especially welcome are papers which promote dialogue among the diverse disciplines to which Hamann’s work speaks. All conference papers should be delivered in English. Please send a one-page abstract by October 1, 2008 to the conference organizer: Lisa Marie Anderson, Assistant Professor Department of German, Hunter College lisa.anderson@hunter.cuny.edu Keynote Speaker: Oswald Bayer, Systematic Theology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Author of Vernunft ist Sprache: Hamanns Metakritik Kants; Johann Georg Hamann: Der hellste Kopf seiner Zeit; Zeitgenosse im Widerspruch: Johann Georg Hamann als Radikaler Aufklärer Confirmed Speakers: John Betz, After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamann Gwen Griffith-Dickson, Johann Georg Hamann’s Relational Metacriticism Kenneth Haynes, Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language Manfred Kuehn, Immanuel Kant: A Biography; Scottish Common Sense in Germany 1768-1800 Johannes von Lüpke, Director, Internationales Hamann-Kolloquium Katie Terezakis, The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy 1759-1801