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Johann Gottfried Herder


 

Johann Gottfried von Herder (August 25, 1744December 18, 1803), German poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher, is best known for his influence on authors such as Goethe and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement known as romanticism.

Bibliography

1765

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  • How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People (essay)
  • 1767-8

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  • Fragments on Recent German Literature (literary criticism)
  • 1769

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  • Critical Forests (literary criticism)
  • 1772

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  • Treatise on the Origin of Language
  • 1774

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  • This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774)
  • 1778

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  • On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul (1778)
  • On the Effect of Poetic Art on the Ethics of Peoples in Ancient and Modern Times (1778)
  • 1780-85

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  • Theological Letters (1780-1)
  • On the Influence of the Beautiful Sciences on the Higher Sciences (1781)
  • On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry (1782-3);
  • God. Some Conversations (1787)
  • 1785-95

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  • Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1784-91)
  • Letters for the Advancement of Humanity (1793-7) (political philosophy)
  • 1795-1800

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  • Christian Writings (1794-8) (on the New Testament gospels)
  • Metacritique (1799) (against the theoretical philosophy of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)
  • Calligone (1800) (against the aesthetics of Kant's Critique of Judgment)