Primary Texts

In German

There are two main German editions of Herder’s works:

• Johann Gottfried Herder Sämtliche Werke, B. Suphan et al. (eds.), Berlin: Weidmann, 1877–.
• [G] Johann Gottfried Herder Werke, U. Gaier et al. (eds.), Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1985–.

The latter edition includes very helpful notes.

• [B] Johann Gottfried Herder Briefe, W. Dobbek and G. Arnold (eds.), Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1977.

Translations

• On World History: Johann Gottfried Herder, an Anthology, Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze (eds.), Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. Contains short excerpts on history from a variety of works, prominently including the Ideas. (Scholar)
• J.G. Herder on Social and Political Culture, F.M. Barnard (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Includes (partial) translations of Herder’s
  • Journal (1769)
  • Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772)
  • This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774)
  • Dissertation on the Reciprocal Influence of Government and the Sciences (1780)
  • Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Humanity (1784–91)
  plus a very helpful introduction.
• Against Pure Reason: Writings on Religion, Language, and History, Marcia Bunge (trans. & ed.), Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.
• God: Some Conversations, Frederick H. Burkhardt (ed.), New York: Veritas Press, 1940. Reprinted Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962. (Scholar)
• Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, T. Churchill (ed.), London: J. Johnson/L. Hansard, 1803. (This is a translation of the Ideas.)
• [HPW] J.G. Herder: Philosophical Writings, Michael N. Forster (trans. & ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Contains translations of
  • How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People (1765), pages 3–30
  • Fragments on Recent German Literature (1767–8), (excerpts on language), pages 33–64
  • Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772), pages 65–164
  • On Thomas Abbt’s Writings (1768), (selections concerning psychology), pages 167–177
  • On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul (1778), pages 187–244
  • On the Change of Taste (1766), pages 247–256
  • Older Critical Forestlet (1767/8), (excerpt on history), pages 257–267
  • This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity, pages 272–358
  • Letters for the Advancement of Humanity (1792), (excerpts), pages 370–424
  as well as other pieces.
• Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Creative Dream, Jason Gaiger (ed.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. (This is a translation of Plastik [1778].) (Scholar)
• Reflections on the Philosophy of History of Mankind, Frank E. Manuel (ed.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Contains excerpts from Churchill’s 1803 translation of the Ideas. (Scholar)
• The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, James Marsh (ed.), Burlington, VT: Edward Smith, 1833.
• Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764–7, Ernest A. Menze, Karl Menges, Michael Palma (eds.), University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. Contains several early essays, including On Diligence in Several Learned Languages (1764), and selections from the Fragments. (Scholar)
• Selected Writings on Aesthetics, Gregory Moore (trans. & ed.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Contains
  • Critical Forests (1769), first and fourth books
  • Shakespeare (1773)
  • On the Influence of the Belles Lettres on the Higher Sciences (1781)
  • On Image, Poetry, and Fable (1787)
  and several other pieces on aesthetics.
• On the Origin of Language, John H. Moran and Alexander Gode (eds.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Contains a partial translation of Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772). (Scholar)
• German Aesthetics and Literary Criticism: Winckelmann, Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller, Goethe, H.B. Nisbet (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Contains two pieces of Herder’s in aesthetics, including his important essay Shakespeare. (Scholar)

Primary Works by Others

• Boeckh, August, 1877, Enzyklopädie und Methodologie der philologischen Wissenschaften (Encyclopedia and Methodology of the Philological Sciences), Leipzig: Teubner. (Scholar)
• Ernesti, Johann August, 1761, Institutio interpretis Novi Testamenti, Leipzig: Weidmann. (Scholar)
• Gerber, Gustav, 1871, Die Sprache als Kunst, reprinted Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1961. (Scholar)
• Hegel, Georg, 1795/6, The Positivity of the Christian Religion, in his Early Theological Writings, T.M. Knox (trans.), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. (Scholar)
• –––, 1798–1800, The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate, in his Early Theological Writings. (Scholar)
• –––, 1807, Phenomenology of Spirit, A.V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. (Scholar)
• –––, 1837, Reason in History, R.S. Hartmann (trans.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Library of Liberal Arts, 1997. (Scholar)
• –––, 1832, Science of Logic, A.V. Miller (trans.), Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1991. (Scholar)
• Hume, David, 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, London: Millar. (Scholar)
• Jacobi, Friedrich, 1785, Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn), Breslau: Löwe. (Scholar)
• Kant, Immanuel, 1766, Dreams of a Spirit Seer, in his Theoretical Philosophy, 1755–1770, David Walford and Ralf Meerbote (trans. & ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Scholar)
• –––, 1790, Critique of the Power of Judgment, Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews (trans. & ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Scholar)
• Mill, John Stuart, 1859, On Liberty, Stefan Collini (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Scholar)
• Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1873, On Truth and Lying in an Extra-moral Sense, in Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language, Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair, and David J. Parent (trans. & ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. (Scholar)
• –––, 1882/7, The Gay Science, Walter Kaufmann (trans.), New York: Vintage, 1974. (Scholar)
• –––, 1886, Beyond Good and Evil, Walter Kaufmann (trans.), New York: Vintage, 1966. (Scholar)
• –––, 1887, On the Genealogy of Morality, Maudemarie Clark and Alan Swensen (trans.), Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998. (Scholar)
• Schlegel, Friedrich, 1795/7, On the Study of Greek Poetry (Über das Studium der griechischen Poesie), Stuart Barnett (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. (Scholar)
• –––, 1808, On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier), in The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel, E. Millington (trans.), London: H. G. Bohn, 1848. (Scholar)
• Schelling, Friedrich, 1792, Antiquissimi de prima malorum origine philosophematis explicandi tentamen criticum, in his Sämmtliche Werke, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1856–1861, div. 1, vol. 1. (Scholar)
• –––, 1792/3, Ueber Mythen, historische Sagen und Philosopheme der ältesten Welt (On Myths, Historical Legends, and Philosophemes of the Oldest World), in his Sämmtliche Werke, div. 1, vol. 1. (Scholar)
• –––, 1795, On the I as the Principle of Philosophy or On the Unconditional in Human Knowledge, in F. Marti (trans. & ed.), The Unconditional in Human Knowledge, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1980. (Scholar)
• –––, 1795, Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism, in The Unconditional in Human Knowledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 1797, Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, Errol E. Harris and Peter Heath (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. (Scholar)
• –––, 1798, Von der Weltseele (On the World Soul), Hamburg: Perthes. (Scholar)
• Strauss, David Friedrich, 1835–6, Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet (The Life of Jesus Critically Examined), Tübingen: C.F. Osiander. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Aarsleff, Hans, 1982, From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Adler, Emil, 1968, Herder und die deutsche Aufklärung, Vienna: Europa. (Scholar)
• Adler, Hans, 2009, “Herder’s Style”, in Adler and Koepke 2009: 331–350. (Scholar)
• Adler, Hans and Wulf Koepke (eds.), 2009, A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder, Rochester, NY: Camden House. (Scholar)
• Barnard, Frederick M., 1965, Herder’s Social and Political Thought: From Enlightenment to Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (Scholar)
• Beiser, Frederick C., 1987, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790–1800, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, The German Historicist Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691555.001.0001 esp. ch. 3. (Scholar)
• Bell, David, 1984, Spinoza in Germany from 1670 to the Age of Goethe, London: Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. (Scholar)
• Berlin, Isaiah, 1976, Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas, New York: The Viking Press. (Scholar)
• Berman, Antoine, 1984, L’Épreuve de l’étranger: Culture et traduction dans l’Allemagne romantique, Paris: Gallimard.
• Bernasconi, Robert, 1995, “‘Ich mag in keinen Himmel, wo Weisse sind’: Herder’s Critique of Eurocentrism”, in Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae 13: 69–81. (Scholar)
• Bollacher, Martin (ed.), 1994, Johann Gottfried Herder: Geschichte und Kultur, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann. (Scholar)
• Booher, Charles Richard, 2015, Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder’s Ethical Thought, 1765–1791, Doctoral dissertation, SUNY at Syracuse. [Booher 2015 available online] (Scholar)
• Broce, Gerald, 1986, “Herder and Ethnography”, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 22(2): 150–170. doi:0.1002/1520-6696(198604)22:2<150::AID-JHBS2300220206>3.0.CO;2-H (Scholar)
• Clark, Robert Thomas Jr., 1955, Herder: His Life and Thought, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Coseriu, Eugenio, 2015, Von Herder bis Humboldt (Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie, Volume 2), Tübingen: Narr Franck Attempto. (Scholar)
• Crowe, Benjamin D., 2012, “Herder’s Moral Philosophy: Perfectionism, Sentimentalism, and Theism”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 20(6): 1141–1161. doi:10.1080/09608788.2012.731243 (Scholar)
• DeSouza, Nigel, 2012a, “Language, Reason, and Sociability: Herder’s Critique of Rousseau,” Intellectual History Review 22/2 (2012): 221–240. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012b, “Leibniz in the Eighteenth Century: Herder’s Critical Reflections on the Principles of Nature and Grace,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20/4 (2012): 773–795. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “The Soul-Body Relationship and the Foundations of Morality: Herder contra Mendelssohn”, Herder Yearbook 12, Rainer Godel, Karl Menges, and Johannes Schmidt (eds.), Heidelberg: Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, pages 145–161. (Scholar)
• Ergang, Robert Reinhold, 1931, Herder and the Foundations of German Nationalism, New York: Columbia University Press. Reprinted New York: Octagon Books, 1966. (Scholar)
• Forster, Michael N., 1998, Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011a, German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199604814.001.001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2011b, “Genealogy”, American Dialectic, 1(2): 230–250. [Genealogy-michael-forster-american-dialectic" target="other">Forster 2011 available online] (Scholar)
• –––, 2011c, “Ursprung und Wesen des Hegelschen Geistbegriffs”, in Andreas Arndt, Paul Cruysberghs, and Andrzej Przylebski (eds.), Hegel-Jahrbuch 2011, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pages 213–229. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012a, “Bildung bei Herder und seinen Nachfolgern”, in Klaus Vieweg and Michael Winkler (eds.), Bildung und Freiheit. Ein vergessener Zusammenhang, Paderborn: Schöningh. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012b, “Herder and Spinoza”, in Eckart Förster and Yitzhak Y. Melamed (eds.), Spinoza and German Idealism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139135139.005 (Scholar)
• –––, 2012c, “Herders Beitrag zur Entstehung der Idee romantisch”, in Michael N. Forster and Klaus Vieweg (eds.), Die Aktualität der Romantik, Berlin: LIT. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “Herder’s Doctrine of Meaning as Use”, in Margaret Cameron and Robert J. Stainton (eds.), Linguistic Content: New Essays in the History of the Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 201–222. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732495.003.0011 (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Historicizing Genre: The German Romantic Rethinking of Ancient Tragedy”, in M. Baumstark (ed.), Historisierung: Begriff—Geschichte—Praxisfelder, Berlin: de Gruyter. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017a, “Herder and Human Rights”, in Anik Waldow and Nigel DeSouza (ed.), Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017b, “Nietzsche on Morality as a ‘Sign Language of the Affects’”, Inquiry, 60(1–2): 165–188. doi:10.1080/0020174x.2016.1258146 (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, Herder’s Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019a, “The Origin and Character of Hegel’s Concept of Geist”, in Marina F. Bykova (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 29–54. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019b, “Imagination and Interpretation: Herder’s Concept of Einfühlung”, in Gerad Gentry and Konstantin Pollok (eds.), The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 175–189. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Les origines de la théorie de la traduction défamiliarisante chez d’Alembert, Abbt, Herder et Schleiermacher”, in Tatiana Milliaressi and Christian Berner (eds.), Traduire les sciences humaines, Paris: Classiques Garnier, pages 97–111. (Scholar)
• –––, forthcoming, “Herder on Humanity”, in Stefanie Buchenau and Ansgar Lyssy (eds.), Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment, London/New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1942, Volk und Geschichte im Denken Herders, Frankfurt: Klostermann. (Scholar)
• Gillies, Alexander, 1945, Herder (Modern Language Studies), Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Gjesdal, Kristin, 2004, “Reading Shakespeare—Reading Modernity”, Angelaki, 9(3): 17–31. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “‘A Not Yet Invented Logic’: Herder on Bildung, Anthropology, and the Future of Philosophy”, in Klaus Vieweg and Michael N. Forster (eds.), Die Bildung der Moderne, Tübingen: Francke-Verlag, pages 53–69. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, Herder’s Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Greif, Stefan, Marion Heinz, and Heinrich Clairmont (eds.), 2016, Herder Handbuch, Paderborn: Fink. (Scholar)
• Guyer, Paul, 2007, “Free Play and True Well-Being: Herder’s Critique of Kant’s Aesthetics”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 65(4): 353–368. doi:10.1111/j.1540-594x.2007.00269.x (Scholar)
• Hacking, Ian, 1988, “Night Thoughts on Philology”, History of the Present, 1: 3–10. Reprinted in Hacking 2002: 140–151. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, “How, Why, When, and Where Did Language Go Public?” in Reading After Foucault: Institutions, Disciplines, and Technologies of the Self in Germany, 1750–1830, Robert Scott Leventhal (ed.), pages 31–50. Reprinted in Hacking 2002: 121–139. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, Historical Ontology, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Harris, H.S., 1972, Hegel’s Development: Toward the Sunlight 1770–1801, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198243588.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Haym, Rudolf, 1880, Herder nach seinem Leben und seinen Werken, Berlin: Gaertner. (Scholar)
• Heinz, Marion, 1994, Sensualistischer Idealismus. Untersuchungen zur Erkenntnistheorie des jungen Herder (1763–1778), Hamburg: Felix Meiner. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1997, Herder und die Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus = Fichte-Studien-Supplementa (Volume 8), Amsterdam / Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi B.V.. (Scholar)
• Heise, Jens, 1998, Johann Gottfried Herder zur Einführung, Hamburg: Junius Verlag. (Scholar)
• Huber, Thomas, 1968, Studien zur Theorie des Übersetzens im Zeitalter der deutschen Aufklärung 1730–1770, Meisenheim am Glan: Anton Hain. (Scholar)
• Huyssen, Andreas, 1969, Die frühromantische Konzeption von Übersetzung und Aneignung, Zürich and Freiburg: Atlantis. (Scholar)
• Irmscher, Hans Dietrich, 1973, “Grundzüge der Hermeneutik Herders”, in Bückeburger Gespräche über J.G. Herder 1971, Bückeburg: Grimme, pages 17–59. (Scholar)
• –––, 1984, “Grundfragen der Geschichtsphilosophie Herders bis 1774”, in Bückeburger Gespräche über J.G. Herder 1983, Bückeburg: Grimme, pages 10–33. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, “Zur Ästhetik des jungen Herder”, in Sauder 1987: pages 43–76. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Johann Gottfried Herder, Stuttgart: Reclam. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “Gegenwartskritik und Zukunftsbild in Herders Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit”, in his “Weitstrahlsinniges” Denken: Studien zu Johann Gottfried Herder, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, pages 73–84. (Scholar)
• Jacoby, Günther, 1911, Herder als Faust, Leipzig: Felix Meiner. (Scholar)
• Kelletat, Andreas F., 1984, Herder und die Weltliteratur, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Kleingeld, Pauline, 2013, Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Lindner, Herbert, 1960, Das Problem des Spinozismus im Schaffen Goethes und Herders, Weimar: Arion Verlag. (Scholar)
• Lovejoy, Arthur O., 1948, “Herder and the Enlightenment Philosophy of History”, in his Essays on the History of Ideas, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. Reprinted New York: Capricorn Books, 1960, pages 166–182. (Scholar)
• Mayo, Robert S., 1969, Herder and the Beginnings of Comparative Literature, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. (Scholar)
• Maurer, Michael, 1987, “Die Geschichtsphilosophie des jungen Herder in ihrem Verhältnis zur Aufklärung”, in Sauder 1987: pages 141–155. (Scholar)
• Meinecke, Friedrich, [1936] 1972, Historism: The Rise of a New Historical Outlook (Die Entstehung des Historismus), J.E. Anderson (trans.), New York: Herder and Herder. (Scholar)
• Mühlberg, Dietrich, 1984, “Herders Theorie der Kulturgeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für die Begründung der Kulturwissenschaft”, Jahrbuch für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte, 12 (1984), pages 9–26. (Scholar)
• Nisbet, H.B., 1970, Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science, Cambridge, MA: Modern Humanities Research Association. (Scholar)
• Norton, Robert Edward, 1991, Herder’s Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Otto, Regine and John H. Zammito (eds.), 2001, Vom Selbstdenken: Aufklärung und Aufklärungskritik in Herders “Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit”, Heidelberg: Synchron. (Scholar)
• Piirimäe, Eva, Liina Lukas, and Johannes Schmidt, 2020, Herder on Empathy and Sympathy, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Popper, Karl R., 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Pross, Wolfgang, 1987, “Herder und die Anthropologie der Aufklärung”, in W. Pross (ed.), Johann Gottfried Herder: Werke, Munich: Hanser. (Scholar)
• Purdie, Edna, 1965, Studies in German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Some Aspects of Literary Affiliation, London: Athlone. (Scholar)
• Sapir, Edward, 1907, “Herder’s ‘Ursprung der Sprache’”, Modern Philology, 5(1): 109–142. doi:10.1086/386734. (Scholar)
• Sauder, Gerhard (ed.), 1987, Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803, Hamburg: Felix Meiner. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Herder’s Poetic Works: His Translations and His Views on Poetry”, in Adler and Koepke 2009: 305–330. (Scholar)
• Sikka, Sonia, 2011, Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference: Enlightened Relativism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511783012 (Scholar)
• Staedelmann, Rudolf, 1928, Der historische Sinn bei Herder, Halle: Max Niemeyer Verlag. (Scholar)
• Taylor, Charles, 1975, Hegel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, “The Importance of Herder”, in E. and A. Margalit (eds.), Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Language and Human Nature”, in his Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Vollrath, Wilhelm, 1911, Die Auseinandersetzung Herders mit Spinoza, Darmstadt: C.F. Winter. (Scholar)
• Wells, G.A., 1960, “Herder’s Two Philosophies of History”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 21(4): 527–537. doi:10.2307/2708100 (Scholar)
• Wiese, Benno von, 1939, Herder: Grundzüge seines Weltbildes, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut. (Scholar)
• Willi, Thomas, 1971, Herders Beitrag zum Verstehen des Alten Testaments, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr. (Scholar)
• Wiora, Walter, 1953, “Herders Ideen zur Geschichte der Musik”, in Erich Keyser (ed.), Im Geiste Herders, Kitzingen am Main: Holzner. (Scholar)
• Zammito, John H., 1992, The Genesis of Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, “Herder, Kant, Spinoza und die Ursprünge des deutschen Idealismus”, in Heinz 1997: pages 107–144. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Modern Anthropology, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Herder and Historical Metanarrative: What’s Philosophical About History?” in Adler and Koepke 2009: 65–92. (Scholar)
• Zuckert, Rachel, 2019, Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)