Courtney Fugate at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is a monumental work, and so is this masterful translation—the first in over a century—by Gregory Martin Moore. Herder’s thought is one of the central forces that shaped nearly every aspect of German intellectual life from about 1770 until well after the turn of the century. He studied under Immanuel Kant at the University of Königsberg, where he also came under the influence of his teacher’s friendly rival, the eccentric anti-rationalist Johann Georg Hamann. Both left indelible marks on his philosophical outlook. Over his long career, Herder interacted, often in a decisive way, with almost every leading philosopher, poet, historian, and theologian of the German Enlightenment, eventually joining the inner circle of Weimar Classicism, alongside Wieland, Schiller, and Goethe. His massive literary output, of which still only a moderate selection exists in English, is itself far too extensive and diverse to describe here. Most notable are his contributions to aesthetics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy of language, political and cultural criticism, and biblical hermeneutics, along with his advancement of the study of folk traditions.[1] Towards the end of his life, he also published two full books aimed at curing the “transcendental influenza” he saw as arising from Kant’s critical philosophy (1955, XII).
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