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J. G. Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann
was a German
pietist[?]
protestant
, thinker, and friend of the
philosopher
Immanuel Kant
. His distrust of
reason
led him conclude that a childlike faith in
God
was the only
solution
to the vexing problems of
philosophy
. Also known by the epithet
Magus of the North
, he was one of the precipitating forces for the
counter-enlightenment[?]
.
He defended the letter
h
in a pamphlet
New Apology of the Letter H
.
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