* Now published for the first time in English---Bayer's illuminating biography of the thinker Goethe called the 'brightest man of his age.' A radical dissenter against secularization, journalist/theologian Johann Georg Hamann churned out publications aimed at undermining the Enlightenment zeitgeist. This probing profile demonstrates that his thought is as relevant today as it was in the 1700s. 256 pages, softcover from Eerdmans.