An excerpt concerning Johann Hamann (my new hero) from my thesis

What Hamann suggests is that rather than assigning metaphysical status to either subjectivity (Kierkegaard) or objectivity (Kant), we ought to regard them as mere psychological categories. The ideas of subject and object always arise in relationship and in response to a third, transcending element. Or, to state it differently “they represent two discrete responses, an inner and an outer, to that which transcends both.” Ethical behavior, for Hamann, is characterized by a twofold response to a transcendent being (God is absolute transcendence), which is “made possible because of the divine initiative in overcoming the infinite gulf between God and man.”