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Interpreting Dilthey

Critical Essays

edited by Eric S. Nelson

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Interpreting Dilthey In this wide-ranging and authoritative volume, leading scholars engage with the philosophy and writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, a key figure in nineteenth-century thought. Their chapters cover his innovative philosophical strategies and explore how they can be understood in relation to their historical situation, as well as presenting incisive interpretations of Dilthey’s arguments, including their development, their content, and their influence on later thought. A key focus is on how Dilthey’s work remains relevant to current debates around art and literature, the biographical and autobiographical self, knowledge, language, science, culture, history, society, and psychology and the embodied mind. The volume will be important for researchers in hermeneutics, aesthetics, practical philosophy, and the history of German philosophy, providing a valuable introduction to Dilthey’s work as well as detailed critical analysis of its ongoing significance.

Eric S. Nelson is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His publications include Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought (2017) and Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other (forthcoming).

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Interpreting Dilthey Critical Essays

Edited by

Eric S. Nelson

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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CONTENTS List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Wilhelm Dilthey in Context Eric S. Nelson

Part I Life, Hermeneutics, and Science 1 Dilthey’s Conception of Purposiveness: Its Kantian Basis and Hermeneutical

Function Rudolf A. Makkreel

2 Leben erfaßt hier Leben: Dilthey as a Philosopher of (the) Life (Sciences) Jos de Mul

3 Dilthey’s Importance for Hermeneutics Michael N. Forster

4 Hermeneutics and Historicity: Dilthey’s Critique of Historical Reason Charles Bambach

5 Dilthey’s Defense of Historicism Frederick C. Beiser

6 More Than One ‘Kind’ of Science? Implications of Dilthey’s Hermeneutics for Science Studies Robert C. Scharff

Part II Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Interpretation 7 Dilthey and Empathy

Shaun Gallagher

8 Dilthey’s Ethical Theory Benjamin Crowe

9 Dilthey’s Dream and the Struggle of World-Views Nicolas de Warren

10 A Task Most Pressing: Dilthey’s Philosophy of the Novel and His Rewriting of Modern Aesthetics Kristin Gjesdal

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11 Experience and Metaphysics: The Anti-Hegelian Aesthetics of Dilthey and Santayana Paul Guyer

12 Dilthey and Wittgenstein: Understanding Understanding Lee Braver

13 Dilthey’s Hermeneutics and Philosophical Hermeneutics Jean Grondin

Bibliography

Index

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Contributors

Charles Bambach, University of Texas at Dallas

Frederick C. Beiser, Syracuse University

Lee Braver, University of South Florida

Benjamin Crowe, Boston University

Michael N. Forster, Bonn University

Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis

Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University

Jean Grondin, University of Montreal

Paul Guyer, Brown University

Rudolf A. Makkreel, Emory University

Jos de Mul, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Eric S. Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Robert C. Scharff, University of New Hampshire

Nicolas de Warren, Pennsylvania State University