Poetry and Experience

Dilthey, Wilhelm; Rodi, Frithjof (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0691029288 / ISBN 13: 9780691029283

Published by Princeton University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poetry and Experience
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691029288
• ISBN 13: 9780691029283
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. The essay "The Imagination of the Poet" (also known as his Poetics) is his most sustained attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of literature in relation to psychological and historical theory. Also included are "The Three Epochs of Modern Aesthetics and its Present Task," "Fragments for a Poetics," and two final essays discussing Goethe and Hölderlin. The latter are drawn from Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung, a volume that was acclaimed on publication as a classic of literary criticism and that continues to be a model for the geistesgeschichtliche approach to literary history.

About the Author

Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Conder professor of Philosophy at Emory University and editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His books include Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton). Frithjof Rodi is Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and one of the editors of dilthey's Gesammelte Schiften.