{"product_id":"herder-9781442650381","title":"Herder","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHerder: Aesthetics against Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 v\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A profound source of philosophical interpretation, which is very close to the source, in which Herder’s significance for the current discourse of global history and anti-imperialism is of surprising actuality.’ -- Michael Maurer * H-Soz-u-Kult March 2017 *\u003cbr\u003e‘While displaying a remarkable suppleness, Noyes strikes a cogent, yet nuanced balance between probing, sensitive readings of Herder’s and his Enlightenment contemporaries’ texts on the one hand, and, on the other, deliberative, thought-provoking critical commentary on current Herder scholarship.’ -- David R. Greeves * Arcadia vol 52:03:2017 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Postcolonial Theory and Herder's Anti-Imperialism  Chapter 1: From Epistemology to Aesthetics  Chapter 2: From Organic Life to the Politics of Interpretation  Chapter 3: From Human Restlessness to the Politics of Difference  Chapter 4: From the Location of Language to the Multiplicity of Reason  Chapter 5: From Human Diversity to the Politics of Natural Development  Chapter 6: The Aesthetics of Revolution and the Critique of Imperialism  Conclusion: Herder, Postcolonialism, and the Antinomy of Universal Reason\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530081804631,"sku":"9781442650381","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442650381.jpg?v=1731877997","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/herder-9781442650381","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}