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Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German
critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism"
- that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth.
This anthology contains excerpts from Herder's writings on world
history and related topics.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German
critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism"
- that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth.
This anthology contains excerpts from Herder's writings on world
history and related topics.
One of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first
new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuries
Published in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder’s Ideas
for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is one of the most
important works of the Enlightenment—a bold, original, and
encyclopedic synthesis of, and contribution to, the era’s
philosophical debates over nature, history, culture, and the very
meaning of human experience. This is the first new, unabridged
English translation of the Ideas in more than two centuries.
Gregory Martin Moore’s lively, modern English text, extensive
introduction, and commentary bring this neglected masterpiece back
to life. The Ideas—which engages with many of the leading
thinkers of the eighteenth century, such as Montesquieu, Kant,
Gibbon, Ferguson, Buffon, and Rousseau—is many things at once: an
inquiry into the unity and purpose of history, a reflection on
human nature and the place of humans in the cosmic order, an
examination of what was beginning to be called “culture,” and a
narrative of cultural progress across time among different peoples.
Along the way, Herder considers a dizzying variety of topics,
including the formation of the earth and solar system, species
change, race, the immortality of the soul, the establishment of
society, and the pursuit of happiness. Above all, the Ideas is an
anthropology—what Alexander Pope had termed an “essay on
man”—pervaded by an appropriately humane spirit. A fresh and
much-needed modern translation of the complete Ideas, this volume
reintroduces English readers to a classic of Enlightenment thought.
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Shakespeare (Paperback)
Johann Gottfried Herder; Edited by Gregory Martin Moore
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Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not
understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature
and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the
same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773). One of
the most important and original works in the history of literary
criticism, this passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist
approach to cultural artifacts by arguing that they should be
judged not by their conformity to a set of conventions imported
from another time and place, but by the effectiveness of their
response to their own historical and cultural context. Rejecting
the authority of a dominant and stifling French neoclassicism that
judged eighteenth-century plays by the criteria of Aristotle,
Herder's "Shakespeare" signaled a break with the Enlightenment, the
approach of Romanticism, and the arrival of a distinctly modern
form of aesthetic appreciation. With a vivid new translation and a
fascinating introduction by Gregory Moore, this edition of Herder's
classic will speak to today's readers with undiminished power and
persuasiveness.
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.
"The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a
depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes
a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate
touching."--Johann Gottfried Herder
Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century
works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's
"Plastik" (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete
English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder combines
rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of
sources--from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the
Bible--to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.
Standing on the fault line between classicism and romanticism,
Herder draws most of his examples from classical sculpture, while
nevertheless insisting on the historicity of art and of the senses
themselves. Through a detailed analysis of the differences between
painting and sculpture, he develops a powerful critique of the
dominance of vision both in the appreciation of art and in our
everyday apprehension of the world around us. One of the key
articulations of the aesthetics of Sturm und Drang, "Sculpture" is
also important as an anticipation of subsequent developments in art
theory.
Jason Gaiger's translation of "Sculpture" includes an extensive
introduction to Herder's thought, explanatory notes, and
illustrations of all the sculptures discussed in the text.
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Aus Herders Nachlaß
Johann Gottfried Herder
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Aus Herders Nachlaß
Johann Gottfried Herder
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Johann Gottfried Herder
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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.
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Johann Gottfried Herder; Created by Wilhelm Gottfried Von Herder
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Johann Gottfried Herder; Created by Wilhelm Gottfried Von Herder
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