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This is the fifth volume in a six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who has had a significant, and continuing, influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. This volume presents Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as representative essays of literary criticism. The essay ""The Imagination of the Poet"" (also known as his Poetics) is his most sustained attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of literature in relation to psychological and historical theory. Also included are ""The Three Epochs of Modern Aesthetics and its Present Task,"" ""Fragments for a Poetics,"" and two final essays discussing Goethe and Holderlin.The latter are drawn from Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung, a volume that was acclaimed on publication as a classic of literary criticism and that continues to be a model for the geistesgeschichtliche approach to literary history.

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Author:   Wilhelm Dilthey ,  Rudolf A. Makkreel ,  Frithjof Rodi
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   v. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780691029283

ISBN 10:   0691029288
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   15 December 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

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Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Conder professor of Philosophy at Emory University and editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His books include Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton). Frithjof Rodi is Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-Universitt Bochum and one of the editors of dilthey's Gesammelte Schiften.

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