Dilthey:
Philosopher of the Human Studies
Rudolf A. Makkreel

With a new afterword by the author

Paper | 1992 | $55.00 / £32.95
472 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. Rudolf Makkreel interprets Dilthey's philosophy and provides a guide to its complex development. Against the tendency to divorce Dilthey's early psychological writings from his later hermeneutical and historical works, Makkreel argues for their essential continuity.

Reviews:

"An important contribution to our understanding of Dilthey and the critical philosophy of history."--Else N. Bulhof, The American Historical Review

"A work of conscientious and penetrating scholarship."--Melvin Rader, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

"This is a much-needed book on Dilthey; full-scale and authoritative, situating his thought firmly in its historical context and relating it to major criticisms, both by contemporaries and by successors."--William H. Dray, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion

Other Princeton books by Rudolf A. Makkreel:

• Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume I: Introduction to the Human Sciences.
• Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences.
• Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume V: Poetry and Experience.

Subject Areas:

• European History
• Religion

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