8. The text, unpublished during Hamann’s lifetime, first appeared in Mancherley zur Geschichte der metakritischen Invasion, ed. F. T. Rink (Königsberg, 1800), 120–134. For a translation of this version, see Schmidt, What Is Enlightenment, 154–167. A copy of the text that was sent to Johann Gottfried Herder in September 1784 is given in Johann Georg Hamann: Briefwechsel, ed. Walther Ziesemer and Arthur Henkel (Wiesbaden and Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1955–1979), V: 210–216.