Herder Today
Subtitle: Contributions from the International Herder Conference, Nov. 5-8, 1987, Stanford, California
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: January 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9783110117394
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; European - German; Congresses; Herder, Johann Gottfried; Literary Criticism
First sentence: The question of whether the theorems of development, which are present in Herder's work, can be interpreted according to the pattern of evolutionary concepts, has been debated since the publication of F. v. Bärenbach's work, Herder als Vorgänger Darwins und der modernen Naturphilosophie" ("Herder as Predecessor of Darwin and of the Modern Philosophy of Nature") in 1877.1