This latter, somewhat surprising assertion Alexander substantiates: Hamann rejects authority and drops "the legal framework as the framework of theology" (p. In his conclusion Alexander sums up Hamann's main objections to the Enlightenment, but he also characterizes him to be, in some respects, a man of the Enlightenment. And it is misleading to say that the category of causality is according to Kant pure intuition (p. Alexander presents him as if he had based his criticism of the concept of causality on the fallibility of sense impressions (pp. But it is somewhat marred by his misinterpretation of Hume. Particularly meritorious is Alexander's attempt to explain Hamann's criticism of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS 335 any kind of aesthetics which applies to works of literature standards of reasonableness.
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