Johann Gottfried Herder#Johann
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#Johann
Johann Gottfried Herder · 1744–1803
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“Kant's own student invented the modern love of cultural roots — a beautiful idea that dignified every people on earth, and a vocabulary that nationalism later stole and weaponized.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“We think in language, languages belong to cultures, and every culture is a distinct, complete way of being human — not a rung on a single ladder with Europe at the top.”
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