ABSTRACT
Together with Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) constituted an important figure of the so-called “German Counter-Enlightenment” which arose in the 1770s and 1780s. Although the literary and philosophical writings of both Hamann and Herder had a great impact on contemporary intellectual life, especially on the formation of the Romantic movement within philosophy and literature, Jacobi was by far the most influential of these thinkers since his works had an impact not only on the Romantics but also on the development of post-Kantian German idealism. In fact, Jacobi’s influence on German idealism is just as important as that of Kant.
