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Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Part 1. Situating Hamann -- 1. Reading "Sibylline Leaves": J. G. Hamann in the History of Ideas (John R. Betz) -- 2. "There Is an Idol in the Temple of Learning": Hamann and the History of Philosophy (Kenneth Haynes) -- Part 2. Hamann in Dialogue -- 3. God, I, and Thou: Hamann and the Personalist Tradition (Gwen Griffith-Dickson) -- 4. Hamann and Kant on the Good Will (Manfred Kuehn) -- 5. Metaschematizing Socrates: Hamann, Kierkegaard, and Kant on the Value of the Enlightenment (Kelly Dean Jolley) -- 6. Skepticism and Faith in Hamann and Kierkegaard (Stephen Cole Leach) -- 7. Hamann, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein on the Language of Philosophers (Jonathan Gray) -- Part 3. Hamann's Place in German Literary History -- 8. Rhapsodic Dismemberment: Hamann and the Fable (Lori Yamato) -- 9. Hamann, Goethe, and the West-Eastern Divan (Kamaal Haque) -- 10. Hallucinating Europe: Hamann and His Impact on German Romantic Drama (Christian Sinn) -- Part 4. Hamann and Theology -- 11. God as Author: On the Theological Foundation of Hamann's Authorial Poetics (Oswald Bayer) -- 12. Metaphysics and Metacritique: Hamann's Understanding of the Word of God in the Tradition of Lutheran Theology (Johannes von Lüpke) -- 13. Is Theology Possible After Hamann? (Katie Terezakis) -- Appendix: A New English Bibliography of Works on Hamann (Andrew J. Sherrod) -- Contributors

This article considers what the plays of Ernst Toller add to our conception of German literature about World War I. It interrogates the relevant themes that emerge in his plays: how the body at war is memorialized; the class divide as an instrument of militarism; and the responsibility to bear both sensory and documentary witness to war events. Though they are more frequently ascribed to Nachkriegsdrama or Heimkehrerdrama, Toller's plays from 1919-1930 illustrate a broader development in Kriegsliteratur from Expressionist abstraction to a more realistic treatment of historical particulars. Tracing this gradual development helps to further dispel the myth that the war experience was an unwelcome subject for German writers until the explosion onto the scene of Erich Maria Remarque and others and counters our previous overreliance on novels in studies of German war literature. It adds complexity and diversity to our understanding of German war literature, not only chronologically and in terms of genre, but thematically and stylistically as well.

Intro -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Notion of Friendship in Hegel and Hamann -- The Writings of Hamann by G. W. F. Hegel -- Appendix: Hegel's Notebook Entries on Hamann -- Translator's Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index