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‘A FRIEND TO RATIONAL PIETY’: THE EARLY RECEPTION OF HERDER BY PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN BRITAIN

Catherine Angerson
作者单位：	1Birkbeck University of London
刊名：	German Life and Letters, 2016, Vol.69 (1)
来源数据库：	Wiley Journal
DOI：	10.1111/glal.12104
原始语种摘要：	Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) already had an attentive British readership in 1800, when the first translation of his Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784–91) was published in London. This curious episode in Anglo‐German literary relations and the reasons why there was a market for this German philosophical book at the turn of the nineteenth century have not been analysed in detail before. The article examines how Herder was first received in Britain as an intellectual ally of liberal Presbyterians and ‘rational’ Dissenters and later attacked and rejected on political grounds by the conservative Anglican establishment. An overview of the earliest reviews of Herder's Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache (1772) in the Monthly Review in 1775 and 1784 is followed...