DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DC042-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/humboldt-wilhelm-von-1767-1835/v-1
Article Summary
Along with Schiller and Goethe, Humboldt was one of the chief representatives of Weimar classicism, a movement that aspired to revive German culture along the lines of ancient Greece. Humboldt’s philosophical significance resides mainly in two areas: political theory and the philosophy of language. In political theory he was one of the founders of modern liberalism; and in the philosophy of language, he was among the first to stress the importance of language for thought, and of culture for language.
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