Herder: Philosophical Writings
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Real Author: Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Editor and Translator: Michael N. Forster, University of Chicago
- Date Published: September 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521790888
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Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) is one of the most important German philosophers of the eighteenth century, who had enormous influence on later thinkers such as Hegel, Schleiermacher and Nietzsche. His wide-ranging ideas were formative in the development of linguistics, hermeneutics, anthropology and bible scholarship, and even today they retain their vitality and relevance to an extraordinary degree. This volume presents a translation of Herder's most important and characteristic philosophical writings (some of which have never before been translated) in his areas of central interest, including philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of history and political philosophy, as well as his general philosophical program. An introduction sets the writings in their historical context and examines their philosophical achievement.
Read more- Herder is a very influential philosopher across a range of disciplines
- Forster is the leading expert on Herder
- Some of the texts included are translated into English for the first time
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- Date Published: September 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521790888
- length: 484 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 159 x 36 mm
- weight: 0.886kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the texts and translation
Part I. General Philosophical Program:
1. How philosophy can become more universal and useful for the benefit of the people (1765)
Part II. Philosophy of Language:
2. Fragments on recent German literature (1767–8)
3. Treatise on the origin of language (1772)
Part III. Philosophy of Mind:
4. On Thomas Abbt's writings (1768)
5. On cognition and sensation, the two main forces of the human soul
6. On the cognition and sensation, the two main forces of the human soul (1775)
Part IV. Philosophy of History:
7. On the change of taste (1766)
8. Older critical forestlet (1767/8)
9. This too a philosophy of history for the formation of humanity (1774)
Part V. Political Philosophy:
10. Letters concerning the progress of humanity (1792)
11. Letters for the advancement of humanity (1793–7)
Index.
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