Herder's Multicultural Theory of Nationalism and Its Consequences
Herder's Multicultural Theory of Nationalism and Its Consequences

Summary/Abstract: Johann Gottfried von Herder, whose life epitomized the cosmopolitan character of the intellectual elite in the greater Baltic region of his time, was born in 1744 in a small East Prussian town. A Russian army surgeon quartered in his town in 1761-62 befriended him and helped finance his way to Konigsberg where he first studied medicine, and then theology and philosophy. Immanuel Kant, from whom he later became estranged, was his influential teacher. After his studies, he became a Protestant minister and teacher in Riga, then a largely self-governing German city within the Russian Empire. Later, he travelled to France, and eventually moved to Weimar. [...]

• Details
• Contents