In this book, Rachel Zuckert provides the first overarching account of Johann Gottfried Herder\'s complex aesthetic theory.
She guides the reader through Herder\'s texts, showing how they relate to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European philosophy of art, and focusing on two main concepts: aesthetic naturalism, the view that art is natural to and naturally valuable for human beings as organic, embodied beings, and - unusually for Herder\'s time - aesthetic pluralism, the view.
In this book, Rachel Zuckert provides the first overarching account of Johann Gottfried Herder\'s complex aesthetic theory