Abstract

This is a paperback second edition of one of the more highly esteemed English language works on Wilhelm Dilthey's philosophy as a whole. The work was originally published in 1975. What is new here is the "Afterword to the 2nd Edition." It was a pleasure to reread the entire work, noting the very careful scholarship, the excellent citations from both the original German and the English translations, the extremely helpful footnotes, the first-rate index and the extensive bibliography. This edition would have been still better had the bibliography been brought up through 1992 publications. Simply in reading through this work it is easy to see how Makkreel on Dilthey became the measure for English language works nearly twenty years ago.