John Betz’s new and important book on Hamann is just out: After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamaan (Illuminations series, more details here). Our library doesn’t have it yet, and it is outrageously expensive — and I heard it may only be published in hardback — so I may not be able to borrow it from these parts for another few weeks.
Meanwhile, Peter Leithart has begun blogging the book:
Hopefully there will be more to come; it’s a rather large book, and in the newer, weird, large-and-bulky Blackwell format (e.g., the 2nd edition of Theology and Social Theory and William Desmond’s God and the Between).
November 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
it sucks that this book is so damn expensive. publishers should get their asses kicked for turning knowledge into an inaccesible commodity. I’m trying to get the library here to order, but knowing how these things go, I may get it shortly before I defend my Phd in 3 years. Maybe somehow a copy will work its way onto the internet, but this seems to only happen with continuum books.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Still expensive, but much cheaper, at book depository:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=1405162465
November 12th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
opps. got my currencies confused. barley cheaper.