German Romantic Aesthetics in the 20th Century

Cultivation, culture is this multia branched, forking pathway that can go in all sorts of different directions. So herder was very concerned with a trancollecting and translating the literatures of all sort of different cultures. And he's one of the pathways by which that becomes romanticizedand enters into the story of german romanticism. But it's also a way in which we to day who are obsessed with issues of cultural identity and multiculturalism reject what admittedly are racist or xenophobic ideas.