What did Johann Gottfried Herder mean by das Volk? Simpson traces the history of the word and its synonyms, then studies Herder’s own usage, his folk-song collection, his writing on Ossian and his ideas of individuality and personality, placing him within eighteenth-century thought about nation, language and feeling.
A historic doctoral thesis by one of the first African American women to earn a PhD, completed in 1921. Download the free EPUB.