Humboldtian Traditions in the German Philosophy of Language

This monograph attempts to consider some, from our point of view useful and important issues of the History of Linguistics based on a narrative approach to its analysis and description. Among those issues, there are Wilhelm von Humboldt¿s scientific heritage, its importance for the German language philosophy in the 18th ¿ 20th centuries, the problem of the interrelation between a language community and a picture of the world that was initiated by Humboldt, Language and Race, perception of Humboldt's personality and ideas in the National Socialist Germany and the fate of those concepts that in varying degrees referred to his ideas as their forerunners (the «Words and Things» movement, Karl Vossler's Aesthetic Idealism) and tried to survive under the pressure of the National Socialist tyranny. A special chapter is devoted to language identities in the "Third Reich".