Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder (eBook, PDF)

Liisa Steinby is Professor emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku. She was the Vice President (2015-2016) and President (2017-2018) of the International Herder Society. Her recent publications include Myth in the Modern Novel (monograph, 2023), the article "Das 'Bild' bei Herder" (2023), and the chapter "Approaches to Myth and Mythology" in The Oxford History of Modern German Theology I (2023). She co-edited The Politics of Literary History (2024) and edited Herder and the Nineteenth Century (2020). Johannes Schmidt is Professor of German at Clemson University. His research and teaching interests include literature and philosophy of the eighteenth century, Herder, Lessing, and Shoah studies. He is the co-editor of the Herder Yearbook (5 volumes, 2014-2022), co-editor of Herder on Empathy and Sympathy (2020), author of a chapter on Herder in the The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy (2020), and author of "'I do desire no free will': Lessing's Peculiar View on Human Freedom" (2019).