A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781571133953)

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 Humanit?t 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, J?rgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph Bultmann, Martin Ke ler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E. Norton, Harro M?ller-Michaels, G?nter 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.

Author: Hans Adler
ISBN-10: 157113395X
ISBN-13: 9781571133953
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2009
Pages: 502
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.27w x 1.12d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2009
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 281