Download or read book Johann Gottfried Herder and the Czech National Awakening written by Zdeněk V. David and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Czech national awakening is habitually linked with Herder's influence as a Romantic and anti-Enlightenment happneing. This study argues the opposite. It contradicts, at least in the Czech case, the idea, originally articulated by Hans Kohn, that European nationalism, particularly in the center and the east of the continent, was an expression of a particularist self-assertion, verging on (or passing into) xenophobia, and defying the rationalistic and cosmopolitan outlook of the Enlightenment"--Abstract.