After Herder Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition

by Forster, Michael N.

• ISBN13: 9780199228119
• ISBN10: 0199228116
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Philosophy of language has for some time now been the very core of the discipline of philosophy. But where did it begin? Frege has sometimes been identified as its father, but in fact its origins lie much further back, in a tradition that arose in eightee

Author Biography

Since 1985 Michael Forster has taught at the University of Chicago, where he served for ten years as chairman of the Philosophy Department and is currently the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and the College. He is the author of five books on German philosophy, as well as many articles on German philosophy and ancient philosophy. Thematically, his main interests are philosophy of language (broadly construed) and epistemology (especially skepticism).

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder	p. 9
Herder's Philosophy of Language, Interpretation, and Translation: Three Fundamental Principles	p. 55
Gods, Animals, and Artists: Some Problem Cases in Herder's Philosophy of Language	p. 91
Herder's Importance as a Philosopher	p. 131
Herder on Genre	p. 163
Herder and the Birth of Modern Anthropology	p. 199
The Liberal Temper in Classical German Philosophy: Freedom of Thought and Expression	p. 244
Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann	p. 283
Hamann's Seminal Importance for the Philosophy of Language?	p. 301
Scheiermacher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher	p. 323
Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics: Some Problems and Solutions	p. 362
Herder, Schleiermacher, and the Birth for Foreignizing Translation	p. 391
Select Bibliography	p. 469
Index	p. 477
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