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This text is important both as one of the most interesting
contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as
the most significant source for the ideas which John Stuart Mill
popularized in his essay On Liberty. Humboldt's concern is to
define the criteria by which the permissible limits of the state's
activities may be determined. His basic principle, like that of
Mill, is that the only justification for government interference is
the prevention of harm to others. He discusses in detail the role
and limits of the state's responsibility for the welfare, security
and morals of its citizens. Humboldt's special achievement in this
work is to enlarge our sense of what a liberal political theory
might be by his particularly sensitive grasp of the complexity of
our attitudes to and our need of other people. Dr Burrow has based
his translation on Coulthard's version of 1854. In an important
introduction, he provides a most perceptive as well as scholarly
guide to Humboldt's political thought.
Wilhelm von Humboldt's classic study of human language was first
published in 1836, as a general introduction to his three-volume
treatise on the Kawi language of Java. It is the final statement of
his lifelong study of the nature of language, exploring its
universal structures and its relation to mind and culture.
Empirically wide-ranging - Humboldt goes far beyond the
Indo-European family of languages - it remains one of the most
interesting and important attempts to draw philosophical
conclusions from comparative linguistics. This 1999 volume presents
a translation by Peter Heath, together with an introduction by
Michael Losonsky that places Humboldt's work in its historical
context and discusses its relevance to contemporary work in
philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and psychology.
This classic study of human language was first published in 1836, as a general introduction to Humboldt's treatise on the Kawi language of Java. It is the final statement of his lifelong study of language, exploring its universal structures and its relation to mind and culture. It remains one of the most interesting and important attempts to draw philosophical conclusions from comparative linguistics. This volume presents a modern translation by Peter Heath together with a new introduction by Michael Losonsky that places Humboldt's work in its historical and philosophical context.
"The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument . . .
unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and
essential importance of human development in its richest
diversity."This description by Wilhelm von Humboldt of his purpose
in writing "The Limits of State Action" animates John Stuart Mill's
"On Liberty" and serves as its famous epigraph. Seldom has a book
spoken so dramatically to another writer. Many commentators even
believe that Humboldt's discussion of issues of freedom and
individual responsibility possesses greater clarity and directness
than Mill's.
"The Limits of State Action, " by "Germany's greatest
philosopher of freedom," as F. A. Hayek called him, has an
exuberance and attention to principle that make it a valuable
introduction to classical liberal political thought. It is also
crucial for an understanding of liberalism as it developed in
Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. Humboldt explores the
role that liberty plays in individual development, discusses
criteria for permitting the state to limit individual actions, and
suggests ways of confining the state to its proper bounds. In so
doing, he uniquely combines the ancient concern for human
excellence and the modern concern for what has come to be known as
negative liberty.J. W. Burrow is Professor of History at the
University of Sussex.
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1823-1826 (German, Hardcover)
Wilhelm Von Humboldt; Edited by Albert Leitzmann
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