Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History

Herder, Johann G.

ISBN 10: 1597520640 / ISBN 13: 9781597520645

Published by Wipf & Stock Pub, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597520640
• ISBN 13: 9781597520645
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

The figure of Johann Gottfried Herder looms increasingly important not only for his prescient contributions to many fields - biblical criticism, philosophy of language, literary criticism, philosophy of history - but also for his pivotal position between the impulses of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Many of Herder's questions and concerns are more pressing at the end of the modern era than they were at its inception. Bunge's lucid and engaging translations of signal texts from Herder - most appearing here for the first time in English - are arranged thematically: human nature, language, and history; myth and religion; God and nature; literature and the Bible; and Christianity and theology. Along with her extensive Introduction and Bibliography, they constitute an essential resource for coming to terms with the checkered legacy of the Enlightenment.

About the Author

Marcia Bunge is Professor of Theology and Humanities at Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University.