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AS Prof. H. A. Hodges says in the beginning of his introduction, this is the first book on Wilhelm Dilthey to be published in England, and it is overdue. Why Dilthey did not attract attention in England earlier is puzzling. The reason is possibly that the most interesting parts of his work only appeared after his death in 1911. Eleven volumes of "Gesammelte Schriften" came out between 1914 and 1936. The challenging "Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften" ("Introduction to Human Studies", as Prof. Hodges translates it) was indeed published so long ago as 1883, but that remarkable work is more the statement of a problem or a challenge than an answer.
Wilhelm Dilthey
An Introduction. By Prof. H. A. Hodges. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. x + 174. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1944.) 10s. 6d. net.
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LINDSAY, A. Wilhelm Dilthey. Nature 156, 461 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156461a0
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