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After Herder - Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition (Paperback)
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After Herder - Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition (Paperback)
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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.
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