'....Ganz Andre Beredsamkeit'

Up to now, Johann Gottfried Herder has been seen as a symbolic figure for overcoming "classical" rhetoric in German Storm and Stress. This view is however at variance both with Herder s own rhetorical practice and with his intensive study of the discipline and his objection to Kant s condemnation of it. Bjorn Hambsch bases his study on Herder s complete works and numerous manuscript sources and provides the first analysis of Herder s engagement with classical and modern rhetoric; he illuminates the complex interplay of critique, application and transformation of knowledge of rhetorical theory and practice in Herder s life s work."