Herder's idea that nations, like individuals, possess a unique, irreducible collective identity, expressed above all through their shared language.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Just as each individual has an irreducible soul, so does each nation. What binds a nation, for Herder, is soil and above all language, not blood or race.
Put simply Herder: each nation, like each person, has a soul all its own. What holds a nation together is its land and, above all, its language, not blood or race.
Humans are social beings with a deep longing for home. Belonging to a unique, rooted community answers it and overcomes alienation. Herder hated cosmopolitanism.
Put simply Herder: people are social and long deeply for a home. Belonging to a distinct, rooted community overcomes the feeling of homelessness ("alienation"). He hated cosmopolitanism, the ideal of being a citizen of the world.
Mickiewicz: the Polish nation "did not die." Its body lies buried, its soul in purgatory, but on the third day it will rise and free Europe's enslaved peoples.
Writing to Ingarden in 1917, Stein casts a people as a living, person-like whole, "a life beyond our own, although it includes ours," to which members may willingly submit.
2 links between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HerderJust as each individual has an irreducible soul, so does each nation. What binds a nation, for Herder, is soil and above all language, not blood or race. L3 · 42:07
HerderHumans are social beings with a deep longing for home. Belonging to a unique, rooted community answers it and overcomes alienation. Herder hated cosmopolitanism. L3 · 42:35
Extends the claim of national linguistic souls into an account of belonging as the remedy for alienation.
HerderJust as each individual has an irreducible soul, so does each nation. What binds a nation, for Herder, is soil and above all language, not blood or race. L3 · 42:07
MickiewiczMickiewicz: the Polish nation "did not die." Its body lies buried, its soul in purgatory, but on the third day it will rise and free Europe's enslaved peoples. L3 · 43:22
Shore offers Mickiewicz as a Romantic national poet illustrating the national-soul idea she traces largely to Herder; she states no direct debt.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.