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JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER (1744 - 1803)

“I feel!  I am!” ("On the Meaning of Feeling")

ASSOCIATIONS

• Internationale Herder-Gesellschaft (International Herder Society)

CONFERENCES

• Herder and his Impact, International Herder Society, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, August 18-21, 2008
• Biennial Conference, International Herder Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 20-23, 2006
• Herder and Anthropology, University of Oslo, May 29-30, 2006

JOURNALS

• Herder Yearbook

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Selected Writings on Aesthetics.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

  • Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.  Trans. Ioannis D. Evrigenis, and Daniel Pellerin.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004. 

  • Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002. 

  • On World History: an Anthology.  Ed. Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.  

  • Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993. 

  • Selected Early Works, 1764-1767: Addresses, Essays, and Drafts; Fragments on German Literature.  Ed. Ernest A. Menze and Karl Menges.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1991. 

  • Werke.  10 Vols.  Ed. Gunter Arnold, et al.  Frankfurt: Deutscher Klassiker, 1985-2000.

  • On Social and Political Culture.  Ed. and trans. Frederick M. Barnard.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969. 

  • Sammtliche Werke.  33 Vols.  Ed. Bernhard Suphan.  Berlin: Wiedmannsche Buchhandlung, 1877-1933.  Rpt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1967-1968.

  • Two Essays on the Origin of Language.  By Herder and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Trans. John H. Moran and Alexander Gode.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1966.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • "Zum Sinn des Gefühls."

    • [On the Meaning of Feeling]. 

  • Kalligone.  1800.

    • Calligone. 

  • 1799.

    • A Metacritique on the Critique of Pure Reason. 

  • 1796.

    • "On the Characters of Nations and Ages."  Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.  Trans. Ioannis D. Evrigenis, and Daniel Pellerin.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004.  118-120.

  • 1794-1798.

    • [Christian Writings]. 

  • "Briefe zur Beförderung der Humanität."  1793-1797.

    • [Letters for the Advancement of Humanity]. 

  • 1791.

    • "On Human Immortality."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  58-62.

  • Uber Bild, Dichtung und Fabel.  1787.

    • "On Image, Poetry and Fable."  Selected Writings on Aesthetics.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.  357-382.

  • Gott.  1787.

    • "God, Some Conversations."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  125-140.

    • God: Some Conversations.  Trans. Frederick Burkhardt.  New York: Veritas, 1940.  Rpt. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1962.

  • Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschiste der Menschleit.  1784-1791. 

    • "Ideas Toward a Philosophy of History."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  48-57; 83-90.

    • "Ideas for a Philosophy of the History of Mankind."  J. G. Herder on Social and Political Culture.  Trans., ed. and intro. Frederick M. Barnard.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969.  253-326.  [Book 3, Ch. 6; Book 4, Chs. 1, 3, 4, 6; Book 5, Chs. 2, 4, 6; Book 7, Chs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Book 8, Chs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Book 9, Chs. 1, 3, 4] 

    • Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man.  Trans. T. O. Churchill.  London: J. Johnson, 1800.  Rpt. Bergman, 1966.

      • Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind.  Abridged version of the Churchill translation (chs. 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, and 20).  Ed. Frank E. Manuel.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1968.

        • "'Part III: Philosophy of World History' and 'Part IV: Reflections on World History.'"  On World History: an Anthology.  Ed. Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.  110-309.

      • "Ideas Toward a Philosophy of the History of Man."  Theories of History.  Ed. Patrick L. Gardiner.  New York: Free Press, 1959.  34-49.  [Book 12, Ch. 6; Book 13, Ch. 7; Book 15, Introduction, Chs. 1 and 5]

  • 1782-1783.

    • "The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  158-174.
    • The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry.  Trans. James Marsh.  Burlington, VT: Smith, 1833.

  • Uber den Einfluss der Schonen in die hohern Wissenschaften.  1781.

    • "On the Influence of the Belles Lettres in the Human Sciences."  Selected Writings on Aesthetics.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.  335-346.

  • Volkslieder.  1778-1779.

    • Popular Songs. 

  • "Von Erkennen und Empfindender Menschlichen Seele."  1778.

    • "On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  187-243.

  • 1778.

    • "On the Influence of Poetry on the Customs of People." 

  • Plastik.  1778.

    • Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Creative Dream.  Ed. and trans. Jason Gaiger.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002.

  • Ursachen des Gesunkenen Geschmacks bei den Volkern, da er gebluhet.  1775.

    • "The Causes of Sunken Taste among the Different Peoples in Whom It once Blossomed."  Selected Writings on Aesthetics.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.  308-334.

  • Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit.  Riga: Hartknoch, 1774.

    • "Another Philosophy of History for the Education of Mankind."  Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.  Trans. Ioannis D. Evrigenis, and Daniel Pellerin.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004.  3-97.

    • "This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  272-358.

    • "From This Too a Philosophy of History."  On World History: an Anthology.  Ed. Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.  35-43.

    • "Yet Another Philosophy of History."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  38-48.

    • "Yet Another Philosophy of History."  J. G. Herder on Social and Political Culture.  Trans., ed. and intro. Frederick M. Barnard.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969.  179-223.

  • Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker.  1773.

    • [Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples]

  • Von Deutscher Art und Kunst.  1773.

    • [On German Art and Culture].

  • "Shakespeare."  1773.

    • Shakespeare.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.

    • "Shakespeare."  Selected Writings on Aesthetics.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.  291-307.

    • "Shakespeare."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  146-157.

  • Stimmen der Völker in ihren Liedern.  1773.

    • [Voices of the People in their Songs]. 

  • Ursprung der Sprach.  1772.

    • "Treatise on the Origin of Language."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  65-164.

    • "Treatise on the Origin of Language."  Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History.  Ed. and Trans. Marcia Bunge.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.  63-77. 

    • "Essay on the Origin of Language."  J. G. Herder on Social and Political Culture.  Trans., ed. and intro. Frederick M. Barnard.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969.  115-177.

    • "Essay on the Origin of Language."  Two Essays on the Origin of Language.  By Herder and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Trans. Alexander Gode.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1966.  85-166.

    • Treatise Upon the Origin of Language.  London: Longman, 1827.

  • Kritische Walder.  1769.

    • "Critical Forests."  Selected Writings on Aesthetics.  Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.  51-290.

    • "Early Leaves of Critical Groves."  On World History: an Anthology.  Ed. Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.  23-32.

  • 1768.

    • "On Thomas Abbt's Writings: Selections Concerning Psychology."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  167-177.

  • Fragmente.  1767-1768.

    • "Fragments on Recent German Literature."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  33-64.

    • Selected Early Works, 1764-1767: Addresses, Essays, and Drafts; Fragments on German Literature.  Ed. Ernest A. Menze and Karl Menges.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1991.  85-234.

  • 1766.

    • "Of the Changes in the Tastes of the Nations Through the Ages."  Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.  Trans. Ioannis D. Evrigenis, and Daniel Pellerin.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004.  101-103.

    • "On the Change of Taste."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  247-256.

    • "Of the Transformation of the Taste of Nations in the Course of Ages."  Selected Early Works, 1764-1767: Addresses, Essays, and Drafts; Fragments on German Literature.  Ed. Ernest A. Menze and Karl Menges.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1991.  65-68.

  • 1765.

    • "How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People."  Philosophical Writings.  Ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  3-29.

  • 1764.

    • "On Diligence in the Study of Several Learned Languages."  Selected Early Works, 1764-1767: Addresses, Essays, and Drafts; Fragments on German Literature.  Ed. Ernest A. Menze and Karl Menges.  Trans. Ernest A. Menze and Michael Palma.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1991.  29-34.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Herder @ Carl Mickelsen's Readings in Modern Philosophy

• Selected Individual Works:

  • God: Some Conversations (1787):

    • University of Sussex Version [excerpts]

  • Ideas for a Philosophy of the History of Mankind [or Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind] (1784-1791):

    • Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit [German Original]

    • Cooper Version [chapter 1]

    • Halsall Version (Extracts)

  • Essay on the Origin of Language (1772):

    • Allott Version (Extracts)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Adler, Hans, and Wulf Koepke, eds.  A Companion to the Works of J. G. Herder.  Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2008.

  • Koepke, Wulf, ed.  Johann Gottfried Herder: Innovator Through the Ages.  Bonn: Bouvier, 1982.

  • Koepke, Wulf, ed.  Herder: Language, History and the Enlightenment.  Columbia: Camden, 1990.

  • Muller-Vollmer, Kurt, ed.  Herder Today: Contributions from the International Herder Conference.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1990.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Barnard, Frederick M.  Herder on Nationality, Humanity and History.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2003.

  • Barnard, Frederick M.  "Introduction."  J. G. Herder on Social and Political Culture.  Trans., ed. and intro. Frederick M. Barnard.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969.  3-60.

  • Barnard, Frederick M.  Herder's Social and Political Thought: from Enlightenment to Nationalism.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1965.

  • Beiser, Frederick C.  "The Political Theory of J. G. Herder  Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism: the Genesis of Modern Political Thought, 1790-1800.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.  189-221.

  • Beiser, Frederick C.  The Fate of Reason.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987.

  • Berlin, Isaiah.  "Herder and the Enlightenment."  Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas.  New York: Viking, 1976.  143-216.

  • Bowie, Andrew.  "The Discovery of Language: Haman and Herder."  Introduction to German Philosophy: from Kant to Habermas.  Cambridge: Polity, 2003.  41-57.

  • Clark, Robert T.  Herder: his Life and Thought.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1955.

  • Dahlstrom, Daniel O.  "The Aesthetic Holism of Hamann, Herder and Schiller."  Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.  Ed. Karl Ameriks.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  76-94.

  • Ergang, Robert.  Herder and the Foundations of German Nationalism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1931.  Rpt. Octagon, 1976.

  • Forster, Michael N.  "Herder's Philosophy of Language, Interpretation, and Translation: Three Fundamental Principles."  The Review of Metaphysics, forthcoming.

  • Harland, Richard.  "Herder and the Spirit of the Time (also Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  62-65.

  • Harland, Richard.  "The Role of the Critic (Herder, Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  72-74.

  • Ioannis D. Evrigenis, and Daniel Pellerin.  "Introduction."  Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.  Trans. and Intro. Ioannis D. Evrigenis, and Daniel Pellerin.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004.  ix-liii.

  • Gillies, A.  Herder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1945.

  • Iggers, George G.  The German Conception of History: the National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present.  Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1968.

  • Koepke, Wulf.  Johann Gottfried Herder.  Boston: Twayne, 1987.

  • Lovejoy, Arthur O.  "Herder and the Enlightenment Philosophy of History."  Essays in the History of Ideas.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1948.  166-182.

  • Lovejoy, Arthur O.  The Great Chain of Being: a Study in the History of Ideas.  New York: Harper & Row, 1960.

  • Mayo, Robert.  Herder and the Beginnings of Comparative Literature.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1969.

  • McEachran, Frank.  The Life and Philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1939.

  • Meinecke, Friedrich.  Historicism: the Rise of a New Historical Outlook.  Trans. J. E. Anderson.  New York: Herder & Herder, 1972.  [chapter 9]

  • Morton, Michael.  Herder and the Poetics of Thought: Unity and Diversity in "On Diligence in Several Learned Languages."  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1989.

  • Nisbet, H. B.  Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science.  Cambridge, Mass.: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1970.

  • Norton, Robert Edward.  Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.

  • Pagden, Anthony.  "The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder."  After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements.  Ed. Gyan Prakash.  Princeton: Princeton UP, .  131-152.

  • Sapir, Edward.  "Herder's Ursprung der Sprach."  Modern Philology 18 (1920): 109-142.

  • Schutze, Martin.  "The Fundamental Ideas in Herder's Thought."  Modern Philology 18 (1920): 65-78, 289-302; 19 (1921-1922): 113-130, 361-382; 21 (1923): 29-48, 113-132.

  • Schmidt, Royal J.  "Cultural Nationalism in Herder."  Journal of the History of Ideas 17.3 (1956): 407-417.

  • Taylor, Charles.  "The Importance of Herder."  Isaiah Berlin: a Celebration.  Ed. E. and A. Margalit.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.  Rpt. in Philosophical Arguments.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.  79-99.
  • Taylor, Charles.  "Language and Human Nature."  Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lecture.  Ottawa: Carleton University, 1978.
    • Human Agency and Language.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.  215-247.
  • Taylor, Charles.  "Theories of Meaning."  Dawes Hicks Lecture in Philosophy.  Proceedings of the British Academy 66 (1980): 283-327.  Rpt. in Man and World 13 (1980): 281-302.
    • Human Agency and Language.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.  248-292.

  • Wells, G. A.  "Condillac, Rousseau and Herder on the Origin of Language."  Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 230 (1985): 233-246.

  • Wells, G. A.  Herder and After: a Study in the Development of Sociology.  Hague: Mouton, 1959.

  • Whitton, Brian J.  "Herder's Critique of the Enlightenment: Cultural Community versus Cosmopolitan Rationalism."  History and Theory 27.2 (1988): 146-168.

  • Zammito, John H.  Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002.

On-Line:

• Bertman, Martin A.: Kant Contra Herder: Almost Against Nature Florida Philosophical Review 6.1 (2006): 53-63.

• Brady, Ivan: Review of John Zammito's Kant, Herder and the Birth of Anthropology Philosophy Now 49

• Desroches, Dominic. "À Qui s'adresse les ouvrages de Herder?  Notes sur Herder, sa conception du livre et du public."  Horizons philosophiques 13. 2 (Printemps 2003).  Online: here. 

• Forster, Michael N.:

  • Herder and the Birth of Modern Anthropology

  • Herder's Importance as a Philosopher

  • Herder's Philosophy Of Language, Interpretation and Translation: Three Fundamental Principles

  • Johann Gottfried von Herder (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Frazer, Michael L.: Herder and the Politics of Difference

• Goethe-Institut: I feel!  I am!  Johann Gottfried Herder

• Guyer, Paul: Free Play and True Well-Being: Herder's Critique of Kant's Aesthetics

• Markworth, Tino: Herder Bibliography

• Pan, David: Herder, the Origin of Language, and the Possibility of Transcultural Narratives

• Radical Faith: Johann Gottfried von Herder

• Roth, Conrad H.: Herder on Mankind Varieties of Unreligious Experience Blog May 27, 2006

• Schmidt, Royal J.: Cultural Nationalism in Herder Journal of the History of Ideas 17.3 (1956): 407-417

• Spencer, Vicki: Cultural Pluralism Revisited: a Study of Herder and Parekh's Theories of Culture

• Thuleen, Nancy: Sensory Perception and Rational Thought in Herder’s Concept of Man

• White, Richard: Herder on the Ethics of Nationalism Humanitas 18.1-2 (2006)

• Whitton, Brian J.: Herder's Critique of the Enlightenment History and Theory 27.2 (1988): 146-168

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Johann Gottfried Herder

• Zammito, John H.: Herder on Historicism and Naturalism

WWW GATEWAYS

• Herder Resources

• www.johann-gottfried-herder.de

• Markworth, Tino: Johann Gottfried Herder

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