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Hans Ulrich Lessing, Rudolf A. Makkreel, and Riccardo Pozzo, editors. Recent Contributions to Dilthey's Philosophy of the Human Sciences. Stuttgart: Fromann-Holzboog, 2011. Pp. 258. Paper, euro38.00.
Wilhelm Dilthey has received a great deal of attention in recent years. The second volume of his Selected Works was published in 2010, making Dilthey's works from the 1890s available in English for the first time. Frederick Beiser also devotes a chapter to Dilthey in The German Historicist Tradition (2011). And Paul Guyer has said that Dilthey will be one of the heroes of his forthcoming Evolution of Modern Aesthetics. The essays collected in Lessing, Makkreel, and Pozzo's Recent Contributions to Dilthey's Philosophy of the Human Sciences were originally intended for a new Dilthey International Yearbook, which would capitalize on the resurgence of interest in Dilthey.
The organization of Recent Contributions still reflects the themes to which the first two issues of the Yearbook were to be devoted. Part 1 is on Kant and Dilthey; part 2 is about Dil they and hermeneutics. They are preceded by an introduction by Rudolf Makkreel. Going beyond the biographical sketch we might expect, Makkreel discusses the role of generation in Dilthey's thought (26-31) and the significance of Kant's distinction between determinant and reflective judgment (24-26). The former-the concept of generation-is significant for at least two...