The Philosopher
Johann Gottfried Herder
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- German
- Schools:
- Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, Romantic nationalism, Anticolonialist cosmopolitanism, Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, Historicism, Romantic hermeneutics, Classical liberalism
- Branchs:
- Hermeneutics, Linguistics, Anthropology, Philosophy of history, Philology, Philosophy of language, Cultural anthropology, Philosophy of mind, Aesthetics, Political philosophy, Philosophy of religion
- Period:
- 18th-century philosophy
The synopsis
The works
Song to Cyrus, the Grandson of Astyages
Essay on Being
On Diligence in Several Learned Languages
Treatise on the Ode
How Philosophy can become more Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People
Fragments on Recent German Literature
On Thomas Abbt's Writings
Critical Forests, or Reflections on the Science and Art of the Beautiful
Gott – einige Gespräche über Spinoza's System nebst Shaftesbury's Naturhymnus
Journal of my Voyage in the Year 1769
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Selection from correspondence on Ossian and the songs of ancient peoples
Of German Character and Art
This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity
Oldest Document of the Human Race
Essay on Ulrich von Hutten
On the Resemblance of Medieval English and German Poetry
Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul
On the Effect of Poetic Art on the Ethics of Peoples in Ancient and Modern Times
Folk Songs
On the Influence of the Government on the Sciences and the Sciences on the Government
Letters Concerning the Study of Theology
On the Influence of the Beautiful in the Higher Sciences
On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. An Instruction for Lovers of the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit
God. Some Conversations
Oriental Dialogues
Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
Scattered Leaves
Letters for the Advancement of Humanity
Thoughts on Some Brahmins
Zerstreute Blätter
Christian Writings
Terpsichore
On the Son of God and Saviour of the World, according to the Gospel of John
Persepolisian Letters
Luther's Catechism, with a catechetical instruction for the use of schools
Understanding and Experience. A Metacritique of the Critique of Pure Reason. Part I. (Part II, Reason and Language.)
Calligone
Adrastea: Events and Characters of the 18th Century
The Cid