Overview

This book is a philosophical delineation, analysis, and comparison of the historicality (Geschichtlichkeit) of human existence in the thought of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), and Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955). Historicality is fundamental for the structure and content of their thought. These thinkers are interdependent and self-consciously interrelated. All of them presuppose that human existence in history requires a discursive thought form that is uniquely appropriate to it. The author labels the birth and development of this form as the dawn of historical reason.

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Tuttle's portrait of historicality as developed by Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega contributes rich detail to the philosophical implications of their thought for our contemporary circumstance. (Elizabeth Millan, Review of Metaphysics)

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The Author: Since 1967 Howard Tuttle has been a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He received advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Vienna, and a Ph.D. in the History of Philosophy from Brandeis University. He is the author of Wilhelm Dilthey's Philosophy of Historical Understanding: A Critical Analysis, and Fire Night: A Story of Pompeii, 79 A.D.

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