A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder
A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Hans Adler (editor), Wulf Koepke (editor), Hans Adler (Editor), Wulf Koepke (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 157113395X
DDC: 838.609
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-04-30
Summary:
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 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.
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