The Northern Magi (1993) - the last lifetime book of the British thinker Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), which is part of the cycle of his research on the central figures of the counter-Enlightenment: Joseph de Mestra, Giambattista Vico and Johann Gottfried Gerder . The hero of the book of Berlin Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788,) Kant's half-forgotten contemporary , Also , as well as ,. who lived in Koenigsberg , appears in his essay not so much as a reactionary and a detractor of the idea of an autonomous mind. How many original thinkers , which became the forerunner of the main trends of the philosophy of our time - the idea of the linguistic nature of thinking Inseparability and Interpenetration of Nature and Culture , Affective bases of cognition and multiplicity of types of rationality .