24.483, Books: After Herder: Forster

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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:14:41
From: Zach Borenstein [zach.borenstein at oup.com]
Subject: After Herder: Forster

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Title: After Herder 
Subtitle: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Michael N. Forster

Paperback: ISBN:  9780199659388 Pages: 496 Price: U.S. $ 55.00


Abstract:

Philosophy 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
("hermeneutics") 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language

Subject Language(s): German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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