Johann Gottfried Herder was one of the central figures in 18th-century European intellectual history. As a philosopher and historian, a literary critic and theoretician, a poet, translator and educator, he was one of the pioneers of the Sturm and Drang movement as well as the mentor of the young Goethe in Strassburg. Included in this volume are a selection of his earlier works, including an essay on diligence in the study of several learned languages, fragments of a treatise on the ode and discussion of the Fatherland. ...
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Johann Gottfried Herder was one of the central figures in 18th-century European intellectual history. As a philosopher and historian, a literary critic and theoretician, a poet, translator and educator, he was one of the pioneers of the Sturm and Drang movement as well as the mentor of the young Goethe in Strassburg. Included in this volume are a selection of his earlier works, including an essay on diligence in the study of several learned languages, fragments of a treatise on the ode and discussion of the Fatherland. Although Herder focuses on the state of German literature during the Enlightenment, he goes beyond literary criticism by basing his ideas on anthropological considerations within the boundaries of an established national identity. The editors of the text have specifically chosen works which anticipate most of Herder's ideas on aesthetics and philosophy in his later years.
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University Park. 1992. Pennsylvania State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0271007125. Translated from the German by Ernest A. Menze with Michael Palma. Edited by Ernest A. Menze & Karl Menges. 352 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustrration-'Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beforderung der Menschenkennriss und Menschenliebe, by J.C. Lavater, Dritter Versuch, 1777. keywords: Literature Germany Translated Philosophy Literary Criticism. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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, a 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. Hos literary fames rests on his early publications, which until now have been available only in German. Although Herder addresses in these texts the state of German literature during the Enlightenment, he goes far beyond mere literary criticism by basing his ideas on anthropological considerations within the boundaries of an established national identity. The editors have chosen texts that anticipate most of Herder's ideas on aesthetics and philosophy of the later years. Johann Gottfried von Herder (August 25, 1744 in Mohrungen, East Prussia-December 18, 1803 in Weimar) was a German philosopher, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, and Weimar Classicism. While Prussia was climbing to power in the later half of the 18th century, new thoughts were sweeping in from her eastern domains. Born in Mohrungen (Polish: Morag) in East Prussia, Herder grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook. In 1762, an introspective youth of seventeen, he enrolled at the local University of Königsberg, where he became a student of Johann Georg Hamann, a patriotic Francophobe and intensely subjective thinker who championed the emotions against reason. His choice of Hamann over such luminaries as Immanuel Kant was significant, as this odd figure, a needy hypochondriac, delved back into the German mysticism of Jacob Bohme and others, pronouncing obscure and oracular dicta that brought him fame as the ‘Magus of the North'. Hamann's disjointed effusions generally carried subtitles such as Hierophantic Letters or A Rhapsody in Cabbalistic Prose. Hamann's influence led Herder to confess to his wife later in life that ‘I have too little reason and too much idiosyncrasy', yet Herder can justly claim to have founded a new school of German political thought. Although himself an unsociable person, Herder influenced his contemporaries greatly. One friend wrote to him in 1785, hailing his works as ‘inspired by God. ' A varied field of theorists were later to find inspiration in Herder's tantalisingly incomplete ideas. In 1764, now a clergyman, Herder went to Riga to teach. It was during this period that he produced his first major works, which were literary criticism. In 1769 Herder traveled to the French port of Nantes and continued on to Paris. This resulted in both an account of his travels as well as a shift of his own self-conception as an author. By 1770 he went to Strassburg (Strasbourg), where he met the young Goethe. This event proved to be a key juncture in the history of German literature, as Goethe was inspired by Herder's literary criticism to develop his own style. This can be seen as the beginning of the ‘Sturm und Drang' movement. In 1771 Herder took a position as head pastor and court preacher at Bückeburg under Count Wilhelm von Schaumburg-Lippe. By the mid-1770s, Goethe was a well-known author, and used his influence at the court of Weimar to secure Herder a position as General Superintendent. Herder moved there in 1776, where his outlook shifted again towards classicism. Towards...