After Herder

Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-922811-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 892 g

Ground-breaking study in the history of ideas
Has radical implications for our understanding of the philosophy of language
Promises to broaden the range of German thinkers currently under discussion in philosophy
At the centre of the book is the first general philosophical study of the great German thinker J. G. Herder
Combines historical scrupulousness with philosophical rigor

Philosophy of language has for some time now been the very core of the discipline of philosophy. But where did it begin? Frege has sometimes been identified as ist father, but in fact ist origins lie much further back, in a tradition that arose in eighteenth-century Germany. Michael Forster explores that tradition. He also makes a case that the most important thinker within that tradition was J. G. Herder. It was Herder who established such fundamental principles in the philosophy of language as that thought essentially depends on language and that meaning consists in the usage of words. It was he who on that basis revolutionized the theory of interpretation ("hermeneutics") and the theory of translation. And it was he who played the pivotal role in founding such whole new disciplines concerned with language as anthropology and linguistics. In the course of developing these historical points, this book also shows that Herder and his tradition are in many ways superior to dominant trends in more recent philosophy of language: deeper in their principles and broader in their focus.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forster, Michael N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Hermeneutik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: HERDER
1: Johann Gottfried Herder
2: Herder's Philosophy of Language, Interpretation, and Translation: Three Fundamental Principles
3: Gods, Animals, and Artists: Some Problem Cases in Herder's Philosophy of Language
4: Herder's Importance as a Philosopher
5: Herder on Genre
6: Herder and the Birth of Modern Anthropology
7: The Liberal Temper in Classical German Philosophy: Freedom of Thought and Expression
PART II: HAMANN
8: Johann Georg Hamann
9: Hamann's Seminal Importance for the Philosophy of Language?
PART III: SCHLEIERMACHER
10: Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
11: Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics: Some Problems and Solutions
12: Herder, Schleiermacher, and the Birth of Foreignizing Translation
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Über Autor(innen)

Michael N. Forster, University of Chicago