Herder, Philosophy and Universal History
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- William F. Bristow
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- 2025
- Reported language
- en
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- article
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- 2026-11-13T12:50:37.968455+00:00
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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In this article I propose that the tension between two of Herder’s most important contributions to Western thought and culture, the incomparability thesis and the history thesis, is reconciled by Herder’s own innovative project and method of universal history. Whereas the incomparability thesis demands that peoples are known in their uniqueness without comparison to other peoples, the history thesis implies knowing peoples in relation to each other as distinct parts of a universal history of humanity. I interpret Herder’s method and project of universal history as a precursor of Hegel’s project and method of his Phenomenology of Spirit. The comparison between Herder’s and Hegel’s methods and projects shows that Herder’s universal history is a philosophical inquiry—empirical, critical, skeptical, and open-ended—into the meaning and telos of human existence. I propose in concluding that Herder’s innovative practice of philosophy as universal history is a third significant contribution to European thought.
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- 10.1080/10848770.2025.2525597
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- Taylor & Francis
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William F. Bristow. Herder, Philosophy and Universal History. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2025.2525597
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- William F. Bristow. (2025). Herder, Philosophy and Universal History. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2025.2525597
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