Abstract

The paper examines the fierce criticism of the Austrian philosopher Ebner to theidealism of Hegel and to philosophy more generally, which he deems unable to account for the spiritual dimension. In order to understand the «dialogic thought» of the author, this paper first proposes an analogy between Ebner and the acrobat player Jof of the movie The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman. The paper then carries out a comparison between the thought of Ebner and that of Hamann, who also reflected on the limits of reason and of the word as something that cannot be simply defined as concept, particularly in the case of the dimensions of spirituality and faith. In the conclusion, the paper examines the actual possibility of finding a balance between the need for rationalism and the infiniteness of faith