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The Tragedy of Finitude: Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life (Hardcover)

by Prof. Jos de Mul (Author), Tony Burrett (Translator)

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One of the founders of modern hermeneutics, German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) confronted the question of how modern, postmetaphysical human beings can cope with the ambivalence, contingency, and finitude that fundamentally characterize their lives. This book offers a reevaluation and fresh analysis of Dilthey's hermeneutics of life against the background of the development of philosophy during the past two centuries.

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Winner of the Praemium Erasmiu, The Netherlands' highest academic prize in human and cultural studies; Yale Studies in Hermeneutics - Joel Weinsheimer, general editor

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Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (January 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300097735
ISBN-13: 978-0300097733
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Synthesis of Dilthey Available, March 12, 2009

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This work by de Mul is the definitive synthesis on Dilthey available in English. It not only develops the thought of Dilthey chronologically, it also sets his thought in an overall structure that he terms the Critique. This structure solves one of the major problems of Dilthey studies - how to organize his disparate thoughts when no definitive work of his exists. Until this book, most other treatments, while helpful and informative, have not managed to rise to the precision and clarity of this work.

One of most helpful aspects to this book is the author's ability to locate and identify the tensions in Dilthey and provide the structure that is needed to understand them. By describing how ambivalence, contingency, and finitude serve as structuring ideas to Dilthey's thought, the author saves a reader from finding Dilthey contradictory and incomprehensible.

One final aspect of praise for this work is the clarity of thought and writing. A helpful and detailed Table of Contents allows any reader to quickly discover the argument and structure of the book. In addition, most esoteric and technical terms and ideas (including many 19th Century German philosophical concepts) are explained quickly and understandably in a way that allows one unfamiliar with these ideas to follow. These explanations, however, do not sidetrack the argument from its purpose and therefore do not prove distracting to one more familiar with the history and ideas referenced.

In conclusion, after having read many works on Dilthey, I find this to be the clearest, most informative, and best written of them all. Not only will it introduce one to a great philosopher, it will also provide a synthesis of his thought that is invaluable.

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