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Herder : Aesthetics against Imperialism / John K. Noyes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: German and European StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 10 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781442650381
  • 9781442622975
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193 23
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  • B3051.Z7 .N694 2015eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Postcolonial Theory and Herder’s Anti-Imperialism -- 1. From Epistemology to Aesthetics -- 2. From Organic Life to the Politics of Interpretation -- 3. From Human Restlessness to the Politics of Difference -- 4. From the Location of Language to the Multiplicity of Reason -- 5. From Human Diversity to the Politics of Natural Development -- 6. The Aesthetics of Revolution and the Critique of Imperialism -- Conclusion: Herder, Postcolonialism, and the Antinomy of Universal Reason -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Postcolonial Theory and Herder’s Anti-Imperialism -- 1. From Epistemology to Aesthetics -- 2. From Organic Life to the Politics of Interpretation -- 3. From Human Restlessness to the Politics of Difference -- 4. From the Location of Language to the Multiplicity of Reason -- 5. From Human Diversity to the Politics of Natural Development -- 6. The Aesthetics of Revolution and the Critique of Imperialism -- Conclusion: Herder, Postcolonialism, and the Antinomy of Universal Reason -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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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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