Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment / / Robert E. Norton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Norton, Robert E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) was one of the leading German thinkers of the eighteenth century, and his contributions to the philosophy of history and language helped to shape modern developments in these disciplines.Robert Norton proposes that Herder's thought—specifically in aesthetics, which was his primary concern during the first 15 years of his intellectual activity—was profoundly indebted to the European Enlightenment and not, as German intellectual historians have often maintained, an irrational rebellion against reason of the Aufklärung generally.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on the Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Enlightenment Philosophy and the Problem of Method: The Origins of Herder’s Aesthetic Theory -- 2. The Ideal of a Philosophical History of Aesthetics: The Diverse Unity of Nature -- 3. The Philosophy of Language and Its Relation to Aesthetic Theory -- 4. Toward an Ontology of the Arts: The First Kritisches Wäldchen -- 5. The Psychology of Aesthetic Perception: The Fourth Kritisches Wäldchen -- 6. Herder’s Theory of Sculpture: Vision and Touch and the Outline of a Philosophical “Anaglyphies” -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index