Product Description : Herder's Philosophy Johann Gottfried Herder 17441803 is a towering figure in modern thought but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated Michael Forster seeks to rectify that situation He considers Herders philosophy in the round and argues that it is both far more impressive in quality and far more influential in modern thought than has previously been realized After an introduction on Herders intellectual biography philosophical style and general program in philosophy there are chapters on his philosophy of language his hermeneutics his theory of translation his contribution of the philosophical foundations for both linguistics and cultural anthropology his philosophy of mind his aesthetics his moral philosophy his philosophy of history his political philosophy his philosophy of religion and his intellectual influence Forster argues that Herder contributed vitally important ideas in all of these areas that in many of them his ideas were seminal for major subsequent philosophers including Friedrich Schlegel Schleiermacher Wilhelm von Humboldt Hegel and Nietzsche that they indeed founded whole new disciplines such as linguistics anthropology and comparative literature and that moreover they were in many cases even better than what these subsequent thinkers and disciplines went on to make of them(IT'S AN USED PRODUCT)