Herder : Aesthetics against Imperialism PDF
by John K. Noyes
Part of the German and European Studies series
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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, constitutes the first attempt to establish not just a moral but an epistemological foundation for anti-imperialism.
Engaging with the work of postcolonial theorists such Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak, this book is a valuable reassessment of Enlightenment anti-imperialism that demonstrates Herder’s continuing relevance to postcolonial studies today.
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- Pages:416 pages, 10 b&w illustrations
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- Publication Date:09/11/2015
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:416 pages, 10 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781442622975