A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Adler, Hans; Koepke, Wulf

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Produktbeschreibung

New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment. 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 histexts. 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 seventeennew, specially commissioned essays. Contributors: Hans Adler, Wulf Koepke, Steven Martinson, Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont, John Zammito, Jürgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph Bultmann, Martin Keßler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E. Norton, Harro Müller-Michaels, Günter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and Ernest A. Menze. Hans Adler is Halls-Bascom Professor of Modern Literature Studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Wulf Koepke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German, Texas A&M University and recipient of the Medal of the International J. G. Herder Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571137289
• Artikelnr.: 63918507

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
and Wulf Koepke Herder's Life and Works
Steven D. Martinson Herder's Epistemology
Heinrich Clairmont and Marion Heinz Herder and Historical Metanarrative: What's Philosophical about History?
John H. Zammito Herder's Concept of Humanität
Herder and Language
Juergen Trabant Herder's Aesthetics and :Poetics
Stefan Greif Myth, Mythology, New Mythology
Ulrich Gaier Particular Universals: Herder on National Literature, Popular Literature, and World Literature
Karl Menges The Germans and Their Future Literature
Wulf Koepke Herder's Biblical Studies and Theology I
Christoph Bultmann Herder's Biblical Studies and Theology II
Martin Kessler Herder and Politics
Arnd Bohm Herder's Poetic Works and Translations
Gerhard Sauder Herder's Style
Herder as Critical Contemporary
Robert E. Norton Herder in Office
Harro Mueller
Michaels The Reception and Influence of Herder's Works
Guenter Arnold and Kurt Kloocke and Ernest A. Menze