Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works Volume V: Poetry and Experience
by: Dilthey Wilhelm / Makkreel Rudolf A. & Rodi Frithjof (editors)

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edge wear, 396 pages. Volume V ONLY. 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. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to about 25 pages in middle of the book.