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Gregory Martin Moore (trans. and ed.), Johann Gottfried Herder. Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, Princeton University Press, 2024, 792pp., $80.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780691147185.

Reviewed by Courtney Fugate, Florida State University

If we would philosophize about the history of our species, let us therefore reject as far as possible all narrow forms of thought originating in the constitution of one region of the earth or the doctrines of a single school. (17) Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is a monumental work, and so is this masterful translation—the first in over a century—by Gregory Martin Moore. Herder’s thought is one of the central forces that shaped nearly every aspect of German intellectual life from about 1770 until well after the turn of the century....