Early modern · 1744–1803
Who influenced Johann Gottfried Herder?
Influences and legacy
Made cultures organic languages of spirit — Volksgeist — and history a chorus, not a ladder.
Johann Gottfried Herder was influenced by Giambattista Vico, Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann, and went on to influence Wilhelm von Humboldt and Georg W. F. Hegel. That is 5 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Johann Gottfried Herder?
Johann Gottfried Herder, a German philosopher, theologian and poet, belongs to the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang and Weimar Classicism at once. He argued that true German culture was to be found among the common people and that the spirit of a nation, the Volksgeist, lives in its folk songs, poetry and dances.
He is credited with founding or advancing hermeneutics, linguistics, anthropology and a secular philosophy of history.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Johann Gottfried Herder?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Giambattista Vico 1668–1744
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Johann Georg Hamann 1730–1788
Who did Johann Gottfried Herder influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Johann Gottfried Herder.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
The line of teachers behind Johann Gottfried Herder
The longest documented line of influence ending at Johann Gottfried Herder runs 20 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottfried Herder
Two steps away from Johann Gottfried Herder
Indirect influences
- Through Immanuel Kant: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The second generation
- Through Georg W. F. Hegel: Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Stirner, Alexander Herzen, Søren Kierkegaard, Mikhail Bakunin, Karl Marx, T. H. Green, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Kitarō Nishida, György Lukács, Ernst Bloch, Jacques Lacan, Alexandre Kojève, Theodor W. Adorno
- Through Wilhelm von Humboldt: Wilhelm Dilthey
Contemporaries of Johann Gottfried Herder
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Johann Gottfried Herder, with no direct line between them.
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 1743–1819
- Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–1797
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–1781
- Moses Mendelssohn 1729–1786
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762–1814
- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Hryhorii Skovoroda 1722–1794
Johann Gottfried Herder by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 84
- Thinkers downstream
- 69
- Wikipedia languages
- 66 — #22 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- German classical: Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, F. W. J. Schelling, Georg W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher
Questions about Johann Gottfried Herder
- Who influenced Johann Gottfried Herder?
- Giambattista Vico, Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann.
- Who did Johann Gottfried Herder influence?
- Wilhelm von Humboldt and Georg W. F. Hegel.
- When did Johann Gottfried Herder live?
- 1744–1803. The map files Johann Gottfried Herder under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Johann Gottfried Herder card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Johann Gottfried Herder in 66 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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