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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of Sources ; Foreword; Acknowledgments ; On the Way to World History: Johann Gottfried Herder Introduction; Part I: Principles of History-Principles of Historiography; 1. Early Leaves of Critical Groves; 2. From Journal of my Travels; 3. From This, too, a Philosophy of History; 4. Whether We Need to Know the End of History in Order to Write History; 5. The Nemesis of History; 6. The ""Querelle des anciens et des modernes""; 7. History; 8. Expectations for the Coming Century; Part II: Mythology and Historiography |
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9. On Monuments of the Distant Past10. On the Earliest Documents of Humankind; Part III: Philosophy of History ; 11. On the Character of Humankind; 12. On the Term and the Concept ""Humanity""; 13. Preface to the Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind; 14. The Human Being Is Predisposed to the Power of Reason; 15. Specifically Human Predispositions Besides Reason; 16. The Nature of Humankind Manifests Itself in a System of Spiritual Powers; 17. The Present State of Humankind Is Probably the Connecting Link between Two Worlds |
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18. The Nature of Peoples in the Vicinity of the North Pole19. The Nature of Peoples Along the Asian Spine of the Earth; 20. The Nature of the Peoples Favored by the Temperate Zone; 21. The Nature of the African Peoples; 22. The Nature of the Peoples on the Islands of the Tropical Zone; 23. The Nature of the Americans; 24. The Search for the Origin of Humankind and the Beginning of History on the Basis of Written Sources; Part IV: Reflections on World History ; 25. China; 26. India; 27. General Reflections on the History of the Asian States; 28. Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea |
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29. The Hebrews30. Egypt; 31. Further Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind; 32. The Language, Mythology, and Poetry of Greece; 33. Greek Arts; 34. General Reflections on the History of Greece; 35. Germanic Peoples; 36. Slavic Peoples; 37. Toward a Culture of Reason in Europe; 38. Concluding Commentary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names; About the Editors and the Translators |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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Herder, Johann Gottfried
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Adler, Hans
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9781315703091 |
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1315703092 |
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