This Too a Philosophy of History

Name: This Too a Philosophy of History
Author: Johann Gottfried Herder

by Johann Gottfried Herder

Historical critique comparing ancient cultures and eighteenth-century Enlightenment

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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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