I have used these weeks to "transvaluate values."MDo you understand this trope?--At bottom, the goldmaker is the most worthy human... type there is: I mean him who out of next to nothing, out of what is despicable, makes something valuable, even gold. He alone enriches, the others only exchange. My task is absolutely singular this time: I have asked myself what it is that has been must hated, feared, and despised by mankind up to now--and out of this I have made my "gold."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann... Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »