Herder's Philosophy (9780192563224) by Forster Michael N

Author:Forster, Michael N. [Forster, Michael N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192563224
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: 2018-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

1 G6:353. For an earlier example of Herder’s commitment to this sort of position, see his recommendation in the Fragments (1767–8) that one should explore the changing nature of people’s moral views and concepts by carefully examining the changes that have occurred in their use of moral vocabulary (HPW, pp. 47–8 = G1:322).

2 HPW, p. 121 = G1:762.

3 HPW, p. 158 = G1:803.

4 G6:353.

5 Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel Ausgabe, ed. E. Behler et al. (Munich: F. Schöningh, 1958–), 18:289.

6 Friedrich Schlegels philosophische Vorlesungen aus den Jahren 1804 bis 1806, ed. C.J.H. Windischmann (Bonn: Eduard Weber, 1846), 2:28–9, 223.

7 Friedrich Schlegels philosophische Vorlesungen, 2:83 (though contrast 1:60).

8 Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel Ausgabe, 15/2:3.

9 F. Schlegel, Lectures on the History of Literature (London: Bell and Daldy, 1873), pp. 6–7.

10 F. Schlegel, Philosophy of Philology, in “Friedrich Schlegels ‘Philosophie der Philologie’ mit einer Einleitung herausgegeben von Josef Körner,” Logos 17 (1928), p. 16. Cf. p. 54: “absolute difference.”

11 Strictly speaking, it had already been used by his brother August Wilhelm in a review article from 1803.

12 Schlegel had some forerunners in this idea. See on this H. Gipper and P. Schmitter, Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachphilosophie im Zeitalter der Romantik (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1985), pp. 22–6.

13 In connection with the latter type, Schlegel not only emphasizes Chinese but also cites Alexander von Humboldt’s collection of native American grammars and Wilhelm von Humboldt’s ongoing work on the Basque language (Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel Ausgabe, 8:153–5).

14 In doing so, he especially built on, and also credited, the work of Sir William Jones. Cf. Gipper and Schmitter, Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachphilosophie, pp. 47–8.

15 Bopp’s work closely follows Schlegel’s On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians not only in its contents but also in its form (for example, like the latter work concluding with a set of translations).

16 Translated as On Language. For more on this subsequent history, see J. Trabant, Apeliotes oder der Sinn der Sprache. Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachbild (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1986), p. 163; Gipper and Schmitter, Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachphilosophie (as well as other works by Gipper); H. Nüsse’s introduction to Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel Ausgabe, vol. 8; E. Fiesel, Die Sprachphilosophie der Deutschen Romantik (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1927), pp. 110ff.; and M.N. Forster, German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

17 For more on these and certain other modifications introduced by Humboldt, see M.N. Forster, “Herder, Schlegel, Humboldt, and the Birth of Modern Linguistics,” in his German Philosophy of Language, pp. 112ff.

18 Some modest qualifications: The young Herder of works such as the Treatise had sometimes at least seemed to favor earlier, more primitive forms of language, namely for their sensuousness, musicality, lack of grammatical constraint, etc., over later, more developed forms of language, which he saw as by contrast more abstract, less musical, more grammatically constrained, etc. But this was arguably from the start more a strategy aimed at counterbalancing the pretensions of the latter to superiority than one aimed at concluding that the former really were superior. Moreover, it favored rather than discriminated against the languages that tended to be slighted by the Schlegel–Humboldt ranking.

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