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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder

University Of Chicago Press, 1986

A Rousseaunian View of the Origin of Language
"On the Origin of Language" is a Romantic take on a most controversial subject. Rousseau's argument is that language did not originate as an evolutionary need to communicate thoughts for pragmatic social or economic purposes but for passionate reasons. Early man, in order to woo and conquest the female successfully, needed to develop a language adequate enough to persuade the female to ...

Herder: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Johann Gottfried von Herder

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Herder is a figure of considerable importance in the history of philosophy and the history of ideas. His far-reaching influence encompasses philosophy--Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, literature--Goethe, Schiller and linguistics--von Humboldt. This volume presents a comprehensive selection of his writings in a new translation, with an introduction that sets them in their philosophical and historical context.

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings
Johann Gottfried Herder

Hackett Pub Co, 2004

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 ...

Selected Writings on Aesthetics
Johann Gottfried Herder

Princeton University Press, 2006

A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe. This book ...

Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764-1767: Addresses, Essays, and Drafts; Fragments on Recent ...
Johann Gottfried Herder

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988

Johann Gottfried Herder was one of the central figures in eighteenth-century European intellectual history. As a philosopher and historian, a literary critic and theoretician, a poet, translator, and educator, he was one of the last great universalists and one of the pioneers of the Sturm und Drang movement as well as the mentor of the young Goethe in Strassburg. His literary fame rests on his early publications, which until now have only been ...

Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
Johann Gottfried Herder

University Of Chicago Press, 2002

"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. ...

Histoire de la poésie des Hébreux: Traduit de l\'allemand pour la première fois, et précédée d\'une notice ...
Johann Gottfried Herder

Adamant Media Corporation, 2001

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1845 edition by Dudier, libraire-éditeur, Paris.

Herders sämmtliche Werke: Band 16. Zerstreute Blätter u. a.
Johann Gottfried Herder

Adamant Media Corporation, 2001

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1887 edition by Weidmann, Berlin.

Philosophische Bibliothek, Bd.248, Sprachphilosophische Schriften.
Johann Gottfried Herder, Erich Heintel

Meiner, 1975

Herders sämmtliche Werke
Johann Gottfried Herder

Adamant Media Corporation, 2001

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by Weidmann, Berlin.

Werke: Zweiter Band. Volkslieder
Johann Gottfried Herder

Adamant Media Corporation, 2000

Shakespeare
Johann Gottfried Herder

Princeton University Press, 2008

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 ...

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