Johann Gottfried Herder

On the Origin of Language

Philosophical inquiry into the origins and nature of human language development

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Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder

German philosopher who founded modern cultural nationalism and the philosophy of history. Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Humanity argued that each culture expresses its own inner spirit. His anti-universalism influenced Romanticism and became the theoretical foundation for 19th-century nationalism.

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