Significato ed esperienza in Herder

In Western Philosophy the current dicothomy between mind and body, understanding and sensibility is generally bound up with the idea that knowing is a formal process indipendent from any kind of material communication. A different position is represented by Herder's conception of experience. Through a revisited version of Leibnitian lex continui, Herder works out a pragmatic-operational view of the mind-body problem, that finds its achievement in his reflections on the origin of language. He develops a cognitive semantics, founded on genetic method and a critique of traditional ideas such as abstraction and representation. To Kant, he opposes a notion of knowledge as a process which is deeply rooted in body-environment interaction as well as historically and socially situated