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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Johann Gottfried Herder"”.
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J. G. Herder and N. M. Karamzin: A study of similarity and influence
… philosophy, and history who have regarded Johann Gottfried Herder as the spiritual inciter of the ""Sturm und Drang"" and as a precursor to Romanticism, continually draw attention to the manifold aspects of modern thought which derive in some way from this innovative representative of …
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Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791
<p>This work is a study of the ethical thought of Johann Gottfried Herder. I examine the development of his ethics from 1765 through 1791. I contend that the earliest texts express a set of ideas that Herder modified and developed throughout the rest of his work. These are a perfectionist …
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The philosophies of history of Herder and Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Johann Gottfried Herder unwittingly contributed to the political strands of Marxism and Fascism, respectively, but also to the gently progressing secularisation of Christian values that pervades the contemporary age. While Herder conceived of God traditionally, as …
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The Art of Invention: Antonio Canova's Bozzetti
… François Hemsterhuis (1721-1790), and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), I examine their relevance to a revised aesthetics of the bozzetti. Finally, tracing the singular historiography of the bozzetti, distinct from that of the marble sculptures, will reveal how they played a pivotal …
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… Charles Levesque, August Ludwig Schlözer and Johann Gottfried Herder. By contextualising their Russian writings in terms of wider Enlightenment discourse on philosophic history and political reform, it seeks to recover the rich and conflicting nature of the debate about Russia. In this way, it …
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August Ludwig Schlözer and Enlightenment in the ‘Age of Parallels’
… between Schlözer and the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder. It argues that for both Herder and Schlözer Russia, the Slavic world and Transylvania appeared to avoid several pitfalls which characterized the development of western Europe.
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… discipline of folklore based on the theories of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and Wilhelm Riehl (1823-1897). Herder wanted the Germans to rediscover their national heritage through folklore materials, and Riehl argued that folklore and folklorists should serve the Fatherland. In the 1930s, …