J. G. Hamann in History and Historiography of Philosophy

The article unfolds reasons for discrepancy between J. G. Hamann’s influence on some key philosophic figures of the 18–19th centuries and the modest place that was allocated to him in historiography and history of philosophy in the context of changing philosophic agenda. It is demonstrated that since the 19th century Hamann was interpreted as irrationalist, representative of philosophy of faith and feeling, precursory of existentialism, post‑modernism, and also linguistic turn.