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HERDER, J.G. Vom Erkennen und Empfinden der menschlichen Seele. Bemerkungen und Träume. Beigebunden: Plastik. Einige Wahrnehmungen über Form und Gestalt aus Pygmalions bildenden Träume. 2 texts in one volume. Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1778.
(II) 94,141 pp. Contemporary hardcover binding. *titlepage of the first text foxed and the text slightly browned, titlepage of the second text somewhat foxed and the text also slightly browned, old name on endpaper, otherwise good condition*
From the library of Leo Polak. Contains his ex libris. Both texts first editions 'In the winter of 1774 Herder composed the first version of another prize essay for the Berlin Academy, 'Uebers Erkennen und Empfinden in der menschlichen Seele', one of his most polished and significant works, with second and third versions in 1775 and 1778, published in 1778 as Vom Erkennen und Empfinden der menschlichen Seele. The essay constitutes a theory of knowledge that undergirds Herder's subsequent work. Herder submitted the essay for a competition hosted by the Berlin Academy, but he did not receive the prize. In this work, Herder argues that the inner state of the powers of sensation sparks cognition. Sensation and thinking are intimately and inextricably bound. Where sensation first sets thinking into motion, thinking gives shape to sensation. Vom Erkennen shares a number of points in common with Herder's essay Plastik, where we find one of his most incisive pronouncements: 'Gefühl ist der erste, profondste und fast einzige Sinn der Menschen: die Quelle der meisten unserer Begriffe und Empfindungen, das wahre und erste Orgnanum der Seele, Vorstellungen von aussen zu sammeln: der Sinn der die Seele gleichsam umgibt und die andren Sinnen als Arten, Teile oder Verkürzungen in sich enthält: die Masse unsre Sinnlichkeit: der wahre Ursprung des Wahren, Guten, Schönen!' A companion to the works of Johann Gottfried Herder, page 28
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