Herder's Social and Political Thought
Author : Frederick M. Barnard
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
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Author : Frederick M. Barnard
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
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Author : J. G. Herder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521133814
The texts collected in this volume, which was originally published in 1969, contain Herder's most original and stimulating ideas on politics, history and language. They had for the most part not been previously available in English. In his introduction, Professor Barnard analyses the basic premises of Herder's political thought against the background of the Enlightenment. He examines Herder's concepts of language, community and culture, his theory of historical interaction, and his approach to the problem of change and progress. Finally, he provides a brief comparative analysis of traditionalist thought following the French Revolution, showing how substantive writers like Burke differed from Herder despite the close similarity of political vocabulary.
Author : Vicki A. Spencer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2012-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442695358
Johann Gottfried Herder was a philosopher and important intellectual presence in eighteenth-century Germany. Herder's Political Thought examines the work of this significant figure in the context of both historical and contemporary developments in political philosophy. Vicki A. Spencer reveals Herder as one of the first Western philosophers to grapple seriously with cultural diversity without abandoning a commitment to universal values and the first to make language and culture an issue of justice. As Spencer argues, both have made Herder a source of inspiration for the pluralist turn of contemporary political philosophy. Contending that in an era of globalization, it is no longer possible to ignore Herder's crucial insights on the relationship between cultural membership and individual identity, Spencer demonstrates how these ideas can help us understand, and perhaps resolve, the linguistic and cultural-political struggles of our times.
Author : J. G. Herder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 1969-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521073367
The texts collected in this volume contain Herder's most original and stimulating ideas on politics, history and language.
Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
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Author : Sonia Sikka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139497383
Herder is often criticized for having embraced cultural relativism, but there has been little philosophical discussion of what he actually wrote about the nature of the human species and its differentiation through culture. This book focuses on Herder's idea of culture, seeking to situate his social and political theses within the context of his anthropology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, theory of language and philosophy of history. It argues for a view of Herder as a qualified relativist, who combined the conception of a common human nature with a belief in the importance of culture in developing and shaping that nature. Especially highlighted are Herder's understanding of the relativity of virtue and happiness, and his belief in the impossibility of constructing a single best society. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested both in Herder and in Enlightenment culture more generally.
Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2004-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603840036
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 traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.
Author : Frederick M. Barnard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773525696
The core of J.G. Herder's philosophy of nationalism lies in the conviction that human creativity must be embedded in the particular culture of a communal language. While he acknowledged that this cultural particular must be integrated into a more universal humanity, he insisted that each culture should preserve its incommensurable distinctiveness. He also called for a new method of enquiry regarding history, one that demands empathetic sensitivity toward the uniquely individual while realizing that there are few gains without losses. F.M. Barnard demonstrates that Herder, despite his innovative work on the idea of nationality, was fully aware of the dangers of ethnic fanaticism, but also of the hazards of what is now known as globalization, recognizing that these must be tempered by a sense of universal humanity. Barnard shows that Herder anticipated modern theories of the dynamics of cultures and traditions through the problematic interplay of persistence and change and that his speculations on cultural and political pluralism, on language as a democratic bond, and on the possible fusion of communitarian and liberal dimensions of public life remain relevant to contemporary debates
Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521794091
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