What, the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder asked, was more natural than a nation emerging from its long infancy in its ...

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the ...

T he study of folklore began in the 1770s with the German romantic nationalist Johann Gottfried Herder. The term itself was ...

European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 31, Issue. 4, p. 887. Presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars.

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the ...

The concept of Muttersprache didn’t take hold in Germany until the late 18th and early 19th centuries. German scholars like Johann Gottfried Herder, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Friedrich Schleiermacher ...

His stance was also true to the Lutherans’ commitment to vernacular languages and their central role in forming cultural identity —a commitment articulated by the Enlightenment philosopher and ...

Gottfried Kumpf is an Austrian artist known for his “naïve” paintings and sculptures which depict landscapes or animals, such as cats, bears, and scorpions. A self-taught and politically minded artist ...

What, the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder asked, was more natural than a nation emerging from its long infancy in its historic home? Origins and innocence, blood and soil, national mythology ...