Question
This thinker’s book This Too a Philosophy of History hails Martin Luther as a great reformer. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this counter-enlightenment philosopher who collected folk songs during the 1770s while writing his Treatise on the Origin of Language.
ANSWER: Johann Gottfried Herder [or Johann Gottfried von Herder]
[10e] Herder’s This Too a Philosophy of History commits to ethical sentimentalism, which led later commentators to connect him to this movement. Novalis exemplified this successor of the Sturm und Drang movement, which emphasized the expression of emotion in art.
ANSWER: German Romanticism [accept word forms like romantics]
[10m] Herder’s philosophy of history strongly influenced Wilhelm Dilthey (“VIL-helm DILL-tye”), who was a major figure in this discipline that concerns methods of textual interpretation.
ANSWER: hermeneutics [prompt on exegesis; prompt on textual analysis]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell C | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |