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German philosophy of language : from Schlegel to Hegel and beyond / Michael N. Forster.
LIBRA P107 .F694 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forster, Michael N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy--History--19th century.
- Language and languages.
- Language and languages--Philosophy--History.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- History.
- German language--19th century.
- German language.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 350 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Michael N. Forster presents here a ground-breaking study of German philosophy of language in the nineteenth century (and beyond). His previous book, After Herder, showed that the eighteenth-century philosopher J.G. Herder played the fundamental role in founding modern philosophy of language, including new theories of interpretation ('hermeneutics') and translation, as well as in establishing such whole new disciplines concerned with language as anthropology. This new volume reveals that Herder's ideas continued to have a profound impact on such important nineteenth-century thinkers as Friedrich Schlegel (the leading German Romantic), Wilhelm von Humboldt (a founder of linguistics), and G.W.F. Hegel (the leading German Idealist). Forster shows that the most valuable ideas about language in this tradition were continuous with Herder's, whereas deviations from the latter that occurred tended to be inferior. This book not only sets the historical record straight but also champions the Herderian tradition for its philosophical depth and breadth. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Schlegel
- 1 Friedrich Schlegel 7
- 2 Friedrich Schlegel's Hermeneutics 45
- Part II Humboldt
- 3 Wilhelm von Humboldt 83
- 4 Herder, Schlegel, Humboldt, and the Birth of Modern Linguistics 109
- Part III Hegel
- 5 Hegel on Language 143
- 6 Hegel and Some (Near-)Contemporaries: Narrow or Broad Expressivism? 178
- 7 Hegel and Hermeneutics 219
- Part IV And Beyond
- 8 Philosophy of Language in the Nineteenth Century 253
- 9 Hermeneutics 286.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-342) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199604814
- 0199604819
- OCLC:
- 671709718
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- Publisher description
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