Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764-1767: Addresses, Essays, and Drafts; Fragments on Recent German Literature

by Johann Gottfried Herder and Ernest A. Menze

Book Overview

Johann Gottfried Herder was one of the central figures in eighteenth-century European intellectual history. As a philosopher and historian, a literary critic and theoretician, a poet, translator, and educator, he was one of the last great universalists and one of the pioneers of the Sturm und Drang movement as well as the mentor of the young Goethe in Strassburg. His literary fame rests on his early publications, which until now have only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023236
• ISBN13: 9780271023236
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"