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Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder, by Angelika Kauffmann, 1791

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It was in Strasbourg that Goethe met the twenty-six-year old philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder -- plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder -- the creative mentor of the Sturm and Drang (Storm and Stress) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm_und_Drang movement, one of the forerunners of Romanticism. In his writing on literature, Herder, who had studied with Kant in Konigsberg, argued powerfully for the unique passion and expressiveness of the German language:

Nature obliges us to learn only our native tongue, which is the most appropriate to our character, and which is most commensurate with our thought . . . We cannot be educated otherwise than in the language of our people and our country; so called French education in Germany must be definition deform and misguide German minds. ~ Page 70

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A state is bounded geographic and political entity, but a nation may be little more than a shared group of ideas. While these might seem parochial, overvalued, or arbitrary, a firm commitment of them was lauded by that seminal, Counter-Enlightenment thinker, Johann Gottfried von Herder. plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder Against the universal principles carried forth by Napoleon’s invading armies into Germanic lands, against abstractions like liberty, fraternity, and equality, this friend of Goethe sought to protect, preserve and invest pride in one’s own nation and its mother tongues. A brilliant, wide-ranging thinker whose work on linguistics and anthropology would be seminal, Herder took a stand for the local cultures and be believed were menaced by French edicts. He demanded the Germanic adaptations and solutions that made up their culture. Thus for Herder, national identity was founded not on natural law, philosophy, or ethics, but rather on history. It took shape from common customs and beliefs, and a body of defining stories. National unity and pride were supported by public monuments, the hoopla of rousing anthems, flags, festivals, shrines to the dead, and commemorative holidays. All this boosted the nation as the focus of individual loyalty and sacrifice, in places where the princes and priests were in hiding, and the populace was said to be king. ~ Page 41/42

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