The modern world is 250 years old(About the Big anniversary of a bright But controversial event).part I. The “Herder Renaissance” in the context of the work of I. G. Herder

The article examines the processes taking place in foreign science related to the name of Herder. A number of metamorphoses, both vivid and large-scale, but almost completely unnoticed by us. The process of a general order is the so-called “Herder Renaissance”, which has declared itself in anthropology, linguistics, political sciences and philosophy. But this latest “renaissance” is more than peculiar: the imperative of historicism, proclaimed by Herder, is hushed up, and sometimes solemnly rejected, the history of historicism begins with Herder, it ends under the shadow of his name. The “Herder Renaissance” as an event of utterance turns out to be a sign of the loss of historicism by modern knowledge. The first article provides an analysis of the prerequisites for the process of loss of historicism and a generalized description of the main directions of this process.