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Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism
John K. Noyes
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Hardback. In Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBTQ; HPCD; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone - even the philosophers of the Enlightenment - could have a monopoly on truth. In Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Noyes argues that Herder's anti-rationalist epistemology, his rejection of universal conceptions of truth, knowledge, and justice, ... Read more
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone - even the philosophers of the Enlightenment - could have a monopoly on truth. In Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Noyes argues that Herder's anti-rationalist epistemology, his rejection of universal conceptions of truth, knowledge, and justice, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
German & European Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650381
SKU
V9781442650381
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About John K. Noyes
John K. Noyes is a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism
`A profound source of philosophical interpretation, which is very close to the source, in which Herder's significance for the current discourse of global history and anti-imperialism is of surprising actuality.'
Michael Maurer
H-Soz-u-Kult March 2017
`While displaying a remarkable suppleness, Noyes strikes a cogent, yet nuanced balance between probing, sensitive readings of Herder's and his Enlightenment contemporaries' ... Read more
Michael Maurer
H-Soz-u-Kult March 2017
`While displaying a remarkable suppleness, Noyes strikes a cogent, yet nuanced balance between probing, sensitive readings of Herder's and his Enlightenment contemporaries' ... Read more