The Review of Metaphysics, June 1st, 2007
DE MUL, Jos. The Tragedy of Finitude: Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life. Translated by Tony Burrett. Yale Studies in Hermeneutics: New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii + 423pp. Cloth, $48.00--Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) is a difficult thinker to come to terms with. His life-long project of writing a "critique of historical reason" was never completed and is handed down to us in fragments. Although his influence on the development of hermeneutics and the philosophy of the human sciences has been vast, his work was heavily criticized by several prominent neo-Kantians as well a...
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