Hans Adler - Böcker

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.

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.

Im Auftrag des 1985 gegründeten Internationalen Herder-Gesellschaft herausgegebenen Herder-Jahrbücher dienen der Diskussion der seit über zwanzig Jahren mehr und mehr hervortretenden neuen Erkenntnisse zu Herders Sprach-, Natur- und Geschichtsphilosophie, Anthropologie, Theologie und Ästhetik und ihres historischen Kontexts; ferner der aktuellen Bezugnahme darauf und schließlich der Verbreitung dieses neuen Herderbildes und davon mitbedingten neuen Verständnisses seiner Zeit.

Die Beiträge dieses Jahrbuchs befassen sich vor allem mit der Herder-Kant-Konstellation im Kontext mit Herders Geschichtsphilosophie, seiner Beschäftigung mit Begriff und Problem der Nation und mit Herders Stellung im erkenntnistheoretisch-ethischen Spektrum der Zeit.