Hamann used the notion of ‘Prosopopoeia’, or personification, as an image of what can happen in philosophical reflection. In a medieval morality or mystery play, the experience of being chaste or being lustful is transformed from a way of acting or feeling into a dramatic character who then speaks and acts as a personification of that quality.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself — Johann Georg Hamann
Far from being an endorsement of identity politics, this is its humiliation. Hamann mocks - he doesn't argue.I wonder how much of that underlies 'identity politics'? — Wayfarer
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