num_pages: 436
description: Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit , supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.
language: English
title: Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
titlecomplete: Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
genres: History, Politics, Philosophy, Germany, 18th Century, European History, Romanticism, Political Science, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 93
publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr