German philosophy of language : from Schlegel to Hegel and beyond / Michael N. Forster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forster, Michael N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language.

German language--19th century.

Language and languages--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Philosophy--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([vii], 350 pages)

Other Title:

From Schlegel to Hegel and beyond

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michael Forster here presents 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 and linguistics.This new volume reveals that Herder's ideas continued to have a profound impact on such important nineteenth-century thinkers

Contents:

Part I: Schlegel

1. Friedrich Schlegel

2. Friedrich Schlegel's Hermeneutics

Part II: Humboldt

3. Wilhelm von Humboldt

4. Herder, Schlegel, Humboldt, and the Birth of Modern Linguistics

Part III: Hegel

5. Hegel on Language

6. Hegel and Some (Near-)Contemporaries: Narrow or Broad Expressivism?

7. Hegel and Hermeneutics

Part IV: And Beyond

8. Philosophy of Language in the Nineteenth Century

9. Hermeneutics

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Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-180994-2

0-19-161924-8

OCLC:

746747114