Herder S Philosophy

Author : Michael N. Forster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192563217

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Herder's Philosophy by Michael N. Forster Pdf

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is a towering figure in modern thought, but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated. Michael Forster seeks to rectify that situation He considers Herder's philosophy in the round and argues that it is both far more impressive in quality and far more influential in modern thought than has previously been realized. After an introduction on Herder's intellectual biography, philosophical style, and general program in philosophy, there are chapters on his philosophy of language, his hermeneutics, his theory of translation, his contribution of the philosophical foundations for both linguistics and cultural anthropology, his philosophy of mind, his aesthetics, his moral philosophy, his philosophy of history, his political philosophy, his philosophy of religion, and his intellectual influence. Forster argues that Herder contributed vitally important ideas in all of these areas; that in many of them his ideas were seminal for major subsequent philosophers, including Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Hegel, and Nietzsche; that they indeed founded whole new disciplines, such as linguistics, anthropology, and comparative literature; and that moreover they were in many cases even better than what these subsequent thinkers and disciplines went on to make of them.

Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840033

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Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings by Johann Gottfried Herder Pdf

Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit, supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.

Author : Anik Waldow,Nigel DeSouza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198779650

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Herder by Anik Waldow,Nigel DeSouza Pdf

"The immediate occasion for this volume was provided by a conference on "The Enlightenment and the Development of Philosophical Anthropology" held at the University of Sydney in November 2013 and organized by Anik Waldow, Dalia Nassar, and Stephen Gaukroger."--Page v.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521452502

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Anthropology, History, and Education by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.

Author : John K. Noyes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442650381

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Herder by John K. Noyes Pdf

In Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder s anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations."

Author : Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107112865

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Herder's Hermeneutics by Kristin Gjesdal Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics through a detailed exploration of Herder's Enlightenment philosophy.

Author : Edward Craig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415187095

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal by Edward Craig Pdf

Volume four of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.

Author : Sonia Sikka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497381

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Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference by Sonia Sikka Pdf

Herder is often criticized for having embraced cultural relativism, but there has been little philosophical discussion of what he actually wrote about the nature of the human species and its differentiation through culture. This book focuses on Herder's idea of culture, seeking to situate his social and political theses within the context of his anthropology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, theory of language and philosophy of history. It argues for a view of Herder as a qualified relativist, who combined the conception of a common human nature with a belief in the importance of culture in developing and shaping that nature. Especially highlighted are Herder's understanding of the relativity of virtue and happiness, and his belief in the impossibility of constructing a single best society. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested both in Herder and in Enlightenment culture more generally.

Author : Michael N. Forster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191582790

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After Herder by Michael N. Forster Pdf

Philosophy of language has for some time now been the very core of the discipline of philosophy. But where did it begin? Frege has sometimes been identified as its father, but in fact its origins lie much further back, in a tradition that arose in eighteenth-century Germany. Michael Forster explores that tradition. He also makes a case that the most important thinker within that tradition was J. G. Herder. It was Herder who established such fundamental principles in the philosophy of language as that thought essentially depends on language and that meaning consists in the usage of words. It was he who on that basis revolutionized the theory of interpretation ("hermeneutics") and the theory of translation. And it was he who played the pivotal role in founding such whole new disciplines concerned with language as anthropology and linguistics. In the course of developing these historical points, this book also shows that Herder and his tradition are in many ways superior to dominant trends in more recent philosophy of language: deeper in their principles and broader in their focus.

Author : Ernest A. Menze,Karl Menges
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271044972

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Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764-1767 by Ernest A. Menze,Karl Menges Pdf

Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571139917

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Herder's Essay on Being by Johann Gottfried Herder Pdf

Presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars.

Author : Hans Adler,Wulf Köpke
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571133953

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A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder by Hans Adler,Wulf Köpke Pdf

New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of the great names of the classical age of German literature. One of the last universalists, he wrote on aesthetics, literary history and theory, historiography, anthropology, psychology, education, and theology; translated and adapted poetry from ancient Greek, English, Italian, even from Persian and Arabic; collected folk songs from around the world; and pioneered a better understanding of non-European cultures.A student of Kant's, he became Goethe's mentor in Strasbourg, and was a mastermind of the Sturm und Drang and a luminary of classical Weimar. But the wide range of Herder's interests and writings, along with his unorthodox ways of seeing things, seems to have prevented him being fully appreciated for any of them. His image has also been clouded by association with political ideologies, the proponents of which ignored the message of Humanität in histexts. So although Herder is acknowledged by scholars to be one of the great thinkers of European Enlightenment, there is no up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to his works in English, a lacuna this book fills with seventeennew, specially commissioned essays. Contributors: Hans Adler, Wulf Koepke, Steven Martinson, Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont, John Zammito, Jürgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph Bultmann, Martin Keßler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E. Norton, Harro Müller-Michaels, Günter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and Ernest A. Menze. Hans Adler is Halls-Bascom Professor of Modern Literature Studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Wulf Koepke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German, Texas A&M University and recipient of the Medal of the International J. G. Herder Society.

Author : Rachel Zuckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483070

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Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics by Rachel Zuckert Pdf

Provides an overview of Johann Gottfried Herder's aesthetics, interpreted as a naturalist theory with transformative historical significance for European philosophy.

Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400827169

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Selected Writings on Aesthetics by Johann Gottfried Herder Pdf

A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe. This book presents most of Herder's important writings on aesthetics, including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works, Kritische Wälder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herder's concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste, Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art and morality. Few thinkers have reflected so sensitively and productively on the cultural, historical, anthropological, ethical, and theological dimensions of art and the creative process. With this book, the importance of aesthetics to the evolution and texture of Herder's own thought, as well as his profound contribution to that discipline, comes fully into view.

Author : Anne Pollok,Courtney D. Fugate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350166080

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The Human Vocation in German Philosophy by Anne Pollok,Courtney D. Fugate Pdf

In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its vocation or is this possible only for humanity as a whole? Is significant progress towards perfection in any way possible for me or just for me as part of humanity? By following the origin and nature of these debates, this collection sheds light on the vocation of humanity in early German philosophy. Featuring translations of Spalding's Contemplation on the Vocation of the Human Being in its first version from 1748 and an extended translation of Abbt's and Mendelssohn's epistolary discussion around the Doubts and the Oracle from 1767, newly-commissioned chapters cover Johann Gottfried Herder's inherently cultural concept of the human being, Immanuel Kant's transformative interplay of moral and natural aspects, and the notion of metempsychosis in Fichte's work inspired by two neglected philosophers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Georg Schlosser. Opening further lines of inquiry, contributors address questions about the adaptations of Spalding's work that focus on the vocation of women as wife, mother or citizen. Exploring the multitude of ways 18th-century German thinkers understand our position in the world, this volume captures major changes in metaphysics and anthropology and enriches current debates within modern philosophy.