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This volume represents the first extensive study on German theoretical approaches to biographical writing at the end of the Eighteenth Century. Following key figures in German Enlightenment like Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schlichtegroll and Daniel Jenisch, this book traces the attempt to establish biography as a central genre in comprehensive hermeneutic world view.

Biography & True Stories --- Biography --- Hermeneutics --- Media --- Biographie --- Hermeneutik --- Medien --- Johann Gottfried Herder --- Köln --- Weimar --- Wien

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This volume represents the first extensive study on German theoretical approaches to biographical writing at the end of the Eighteenth Century. Following key figures in German Enlightenment like Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schlichtegroll and Daniel Jenisch, this book traces the attempt to establish biography as a central genre in comprehensive hermeneutic world view.

Biography & True Stories --- Biography --- Hermeneutics --- Media --- Biographie --- Hermeneutik --- Medien --- Johann Gottfried Herder --- Köln --- Weimar --- Wien

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Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of the great names of the classical age of German literature. One of the last universalists, he wrote on aesthetics, literary history and theory, historiography, anthropology, psychology, education, and theology; translated and adapted poetry from ancient Greek, English, Italian, even from Persian and Arabic; collected folk songs from around the world; and pioneered a better understanding of non-European cultures. A student of Kant's, he became Goethe's mentor in Strasbourg, and was a mastermind of the Sturm und Drang and a luminary of classical Weimar. But the wide range of Herder's interests and writings, along with his unorthodox ways of seeing things, seems to have prevented him being fully appreciated for any of them. His image has also been clouded by association with political ideologies, the proponents of which ignored the message of Humanita̘t in his texts. So although Herder is acknowledged by scholars to be one of the great thinkers of European Enlightenment, there is no up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to his works in English, a lacuna this book fills with seventeen new, specially commissioned essays.

Herder, Johann Gottfried, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- von Herder, Johann Gottfried --- Von Herder, J. G. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Aesthetics. --- Anthropology. --- Comprehensive Introduction. --- Education. --- English. --- Enlightenment. --- Folk Songs. --- German Literature. --- Humanität. --- Johann Gottfried Herder. --- Literary History. --- Non-European Cultures. --- Psychology. --- Theology. --- Translation. --- Universalist. --- Works.

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Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication. Framed by analytical chapters and extensive introductions to each translation, this book interprets Herder's musings on music to think through several major questions: What meaning did religion and religious thought have for Herder? Why do the nation and nationalism acquire musical dimensions at the confluence of aesthetics and religious thought? How did his aesthetic and musical thought come to transform the way Herder understood music and nationalism and their presence in global history? Bohlman uses the mode of translation to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures, providing today's readers with an elegantly narrated and exceptionally curated collection of essays on music by two major intellectuals.

Folk songs --- Nationalism in music. --- National characteristics. --- Characteristics, National --- Identity, National --- Images, National --- National identity --- National images --- National psychology --- Psychology, National --- Anthropology --- Nationalism --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ethnopsychology --- Exceptionalism --- Nationalism and music --- National music --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Herder, Johann Gottfried, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- von Herder, Johann Gottfried --- Von Herder, J. G. --- academic. --- aesthetics. --- analytical. --- christian influence. --- christian. --- christianity. --- composer. --- culture. --- essays. --- ethnomusicologist. --- global history. --- intellectual. --- johann gottfried herder. --- language translation. --- language. --- music theory. --- musical composition. --- musician. --- nationalism. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- religious thought. --- sacred music. --- sacred songs. --- scholarly. --- volkslieder.