Self-Direction and Political Legitimacy: Rousseau and Herder
Oxford University (1988) |Abstract||Johann Gottfried Herder
(1744-1803) has been called the German Rousseau. Yet while
Rousseau is recognized as a political thinker, Herder is not.
This book explores each thinker's ideas--on nature and culture,
selfhood and mutuality, paternalism, freedom, and autonomy--and
compares their conceptions of legitimate statehood. Arguing that
the crux of political legitimacy for both men was the
possibility of "extended selfhood," Barnard shows that Herder,
like Rousseau, profoundly altered human self-understandings,
thus influencing modes of justifying political allegiance.|
|Keywords||Self-determination, National Legitimacy of
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