Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology

From: German Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Zammito, John H. Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 576 pp. $68.00 hardcover; $29.00 paperback.

In this prequel to his The Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment, Zammito offers a compelling account of one of the most significant divergences in eighteenth century German thought: the breach between Kant and his student Herder over the relation of philosophy to "anthropology," or the study of human nature. He presents the intellectual biographies of Kant and Herder as two trajectories which converged from roughly 1762-1767 and then diverged, ...

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