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Single Idea 7668

[from 'works' by Johann Gottfried Herder, in 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism ]

Full Idea

The whole notion of being at home, or being cut off from one's natural roots, the whole idea of roots, the whole idea of belonging to a group, a sect, a movement, was largely invented by Herder.

Gist of Idea

Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group

Source

report of Johann Gottfried Herder (works [1784], Ch.3) by Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism

Book Reference

Berlin,Isaiah: 'The Roots of Romanticism' [Pimlico 2000], p.60


A Reaction

Hm. Broad generalisations are an awful temptation in the history of ideas. As a corrective to this, trying reading the two Anglo-Saxon poems 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer'. Very Germanic, I suppose. Interesting, though. Leads to Hegel's politics.