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020			_a9780199659388
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100			_aForster, Michael N.
245			_aAfter Herder : philosophy of language in the German tradition
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2010 _aOxford :
300			_axi, 482 p. ; _c24 cm
365			_b42.99 _cGBP _d104.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aPhilosophy of language has for some time now been the very core of the discipline of philosophy. But where did it begin? Frege has sometimes been identified as its father, but in fact its origins lie much further back, in a tradition that arose in eighteenth-century Germany. Michael Forster explores that tradition. He also makes a case that the most important thinker within that tradition was J.G. Herder. It was Herder who established such fundamental principles in the philosophy of language as that thought essentially depends on language and that meaning consists in the usage of words. It was he who on that basis revolutionized the theory of interpretation (h̀ermeneutics') and the theory of translation. And it was he who played the pivotal role in founding such whole new disciplines concerned with language as anthropology and linguistics. In the course of developing these historical points, this book also shows that Herder and his tradition are in many ways superior to dominant trends in more recent philosophy of language: deeper in their principles and broader in their focus.
650			_aHerder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
650			_aAnti-psychologism
650			_a Berman,A.
650			_aBible
650			_aCosmopolitanism
650			_a Culture
650			_a Divination
650			_aExpressivism
650			_aFreedom
650			_aGermany
650			_aGreek art
650			_aHermeneutics
650			_a Idea
650			_aKant,I.
650			_a Liberalism
650			_a Morality
650			_aNew Testament
650			_a Painting
650			_aPtussia
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aSensations
650			_aSkepticism
650			_aTragedy
650			_aVoltaire
650			_aWomen
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