id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4218 Johann Gottfried Herder - Wikipedia .html text/html 7414 1212 62 Herder most pronouncedly after Georg Forster's 1791 translation of the Sanskrit play Shakuntala was influenced by the religious imagery of Hinduism and Indian literature, which he saw in a positive light, writing several essays on the topic and the preface to the 1803 edition of Shakuntala.[27][28] After becoming General Superintendent in 1776, Herder's philosophy shifted again towards classicism, and he produced works such as his unfinished Outline of a Philosophical History of Humanity which largely originated the school of historical thought. The most important philosophical works of the early Herder available in English, including an unabridged version of the Treatise on the Origin of Language and This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Mankind. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4218.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4218.txt