UID:
edocfu_9961004249102883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 489 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-79553-8
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9786612795534
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1-57113-728-9
Series Statement:
Camden House companion volumes
Content:
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 HumanitaÌt in his texts. 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 seventeen new, specially commissioned essays.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023).
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Herder's life and works / Steven D. Martinson -- Herder's epistemology / Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont -- Herder and historical metanarrative : what's philosophical about history? / John Zammito -- Herder's concept of humanitat / Hans Adler -- Herder and language / Jurgen Trabant -- Herder's aesthetics and poetics / Stefan Greif -- Myth, mythology, new mythology / Ulrich Gaier -- Particular universals : Herder on national literature, popular literature, and world literature / Karl Menges -- Herder's views on the Germans and their future literature / Wulf Koepke -- Herder's Biblical studies / Christoph Bultmann -- Herder's theology / Martin Kessler -- Herder and politics / Arnd Bohm -- Herder's poetic works, his translations, and his views on poetry / Gerhard Sauder -- Herder's style / Hans Adler -- Herder as critical contemporary / Robert E. Norton -- Herder in office : his duties as superintendent of schools / Harro Muller-Michaels -- Herder's reception and influence / Gunter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and Ernest A. Menze.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-395-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781571137289
