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267Imagination and Temporality in Kant’S Theory O F The SublimeJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 42 (3): 303-315. 1984.
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149Purposiveness in history: Its status after Kant, Hegel, Dilthey and HabermasPhilosophy and Social Criticism 18 (3-4): 221-234. 1992.
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133Reflective Judgment, Orientation and the Priorities of Justice (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 27 (3): 105-110. 2001.
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133Richard E. Palmer, "Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 9 (1): 114. 1971.
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130Imagination and interpretation in Kant: the hermeneutical import of the Critique of judgmentUniversity of Chicago Press. 1990.In this illuminating study of Kant's theory of imagination and its role in interpretation, Rudolf A. Makkreel argues against the commonly held notion that Kant's transcendental philosophy is incompatible with hermeneutics. The charge that Kant's foundational philosophy is inadequate to the task of interpretation can be rebutted, explains Makkreel, if we fully understand the role of imagination in his work. In identifying this role, Makkreel also reevaluates the relationship among Kant's discussi…Read more
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127Husserl, Dilthey and the relation of the life-world to historyResearch in Phenomenology 12 (1): 39-58. 1982.
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102Neo-Kantianism in Contemporary Philosophy (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2009.These essays bring Neo-Kantianism back into contemporary philosophical discourse.
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95Wilhelm Dilthey and the Neo-Kantians: The Distinction of the Geisteswissenschaften and the KulturwissenschaftenJournal of the History of Philosophy 7 (4): 423-440. 1969.
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79The confluence of aesthetics and hermeneutics in Baumgarten, Meier, and KantJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (1): 65-75. 1996.
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68Dilthey, philosopher of the human studiesPrinceton University Press. 1975.The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. Rudolf Makkreel interprets Dilthey's philosophy and provides a guide to its complex development. Against the tendency to divorce Dilthey's early psychological writings from his later hermeneutical and historical works, Makkreel argues for their essential continuity.
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68Kant and the development of the human and cultural sciencesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (4): 546-553. 2008.Starting with Kant’s doubts about psychology as a natural science capable of explaining human behavior, several alternative attempts to conceive of human life, culture and history are examined. Kant proposes an anthropology that will be a commonly useful human science rather than a universally valid natural science. This anthropology relates to philosophy as a mode of world-cognition. Special attention is given to how Kant’s theory of right can help define our appropriate place in a communal wor…Read more
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63Regulative and reflective uses of purposiveness in KantSouthern Journal of Philosophy 30 (S1): 49-63. 1992.
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58Reinterpreting the Historical WorldThe Monist 74 (2): 149-164. 1991.Some philosophers have distinguished history from nature by speaking of the former as the mind-affected world. Such a distinction would seem to account for the fact that we have a sense of belonging to and participating in the movement of history and of being able to change it by our thoughts and plans. If we take this claim metaphysically, then history would be the domain that we have influenced, and nature the domain that we have failed to influence. Vico and Dilthey are known for their thesis…Read more
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57Günter Wohlfart, "Der Augenblick: Zeit und ästhetische Erfahrung bei Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche und Heidegger mit einem Exkurs zu Proust" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (4): 497. 1984.
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56The cognition–knowledge distinction in Kant and Dilthey and the implications for psychology and self-understandingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1): 149-164. 2003.Both Kant and Dilthey distinguish between cognition and knowledge, but they do so differently in accordance with their respective theoretical interests. Kant’s primary cognitive interest is in the natural sciences, and from this perspective the status of psychology is questioned because its phenomena are not mathematically measurable. Dilthey, by contrast, reconceives psychology as a human science.For Kant, knowledge is conceptual cognition that has attained certainty by being part of a rational…Read more
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49The role of judgment and orientation in hermeneuticsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 34 (1-2): 29-50. 2008.This paper attempts to reassess the role of judgment in hermeneutics. Beyond considering the different modes of judgment involved in interpretation, a topology of contexts that can orient understanding is proposed, starting with the way Kant distinguishes among a field, a territory and a domain. Other relevant contexts are also considered. One of the main tasks of hermeneutics is to be able to coordinate various interdisciplinary contexts
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48The Ethics of History (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2004.What is implied by "ethics of history"? The authors of this volume, internationally renowned philosophers and intellectual historians, address this question in all its novelty and ambiguity and develop varied perspectives on the place and nature of ethics in the philosophy, enterprise, and practice of history. Is the whole historical process--largely consisting of the actions and sufferings of persons and groups--subject to ethical constraint? And what of the ways in which historians present the…Read more
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47Reflective Judgment and the Problem of Assessing Virtue in KantJournal of Value Inquiry 36 (2-3): 205-220. 2002.
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47Kant and the Need for Orientational and Contextual Thinking: Applying Reflective Judgement to Aesthetics and to the Comprehension of Human LifeKantian Review 26 (1): 53-78. 2021.This essay explores the relation between worldly orientation and rational comprehension in Kant. Both require subjective grounds of differentiation that were eventually developed into a contextualizing principle for reflective judgement. This kind of judgement can proceed either inductively to find new universals or by analogy to symbolically link different objective spheres. I will argue that the basic orientational function of reflective judgement is to modally differentiate the formal horizon…Read more
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46The meaning of modern art; a philosophical interpretationJournal of the History of Philosophy 7 (4): 477-480. 1969.
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45Kant and the Interpretation of Nature and HistoryPhilosophical Forum 21 (1): 169. 1989.My purpose is to examine Kant's views on interpreting nature and history and to attempt to see them as coherent by relating them to his theory of reflective judgment. With this reconstruction of a kantian conception of interpretation it is possible to shed new light on kant's approach to political history. I propose that reflective judgments as defined in the "critique of judgment" be conceived primarily as interpretive and only derivatively as either aesthetic or teleological. This approach to …Read more
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42This comprehensive treatment of Neo-Kantianism discusses the main topics and key figures of the movement and their intersection with other 20th-century philosophers. With the advent of phenomenology, existentialism, and the Frankfurt School, Neo-Kantianism was deemed too narrowly academic and science-oriented to compete with new directions in philosophy. These essays bring Neo-Kantianism back into contemporary philosophical discourse. They expand current views of the Neo-Kantians and reassess th…Read more
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42Edward P. Mahoney: 1932–2009Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (2). 2009.The Journal of the History of Philosophy is saddened to report that Professor Edward P. Mahoney died on January 8, 2009. Professor Mahoney served on the Journal's Board of Directors from 1984 until the spring of 2008, when he retired due to illness. Ed also served on the Journal's Book Review Advisory Board since 1990. He was a tireless advocate of scholarly rigor.Edward Mahoney was born in 1932 in New York City. Ed received his BA at Cathedral College, an MA in Philosophy at St. John's Universi…Read more
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38Robert Piercey, The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty; Doing Philosophy Historically. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 221 pp (review)Journal of the Philosophy of History 4 (3-4): 435-439. 2010.
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38Toward a concept of style: An interpretation of Wilhelm Dilthey's psycho-historical account of the imaginationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 27 (2): 171-182. 1968.
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37Orientierung und Tradition in der Hermeneutik: Kant versus GadamerZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 41 (3). 1987.
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36The genesis of Heidegger's phenomenological hermeneutics and the rediscovered ?Aristotle introduction? of 1922Man and World 23 (3): 305-320. 1990.
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35Gerhard Krämling, "Die systembildende Rolle von Ästhetik und Kulturphilosophie bei Kant" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (4): 628. 1989.
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