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This entry focuses on the Renaissance work of German Kantian philosopher of the human sciences Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911). Emphasis is placed on Dilthey’s original works on the Renaissance, his formative influences, and his impact on Renaissance philosophy scholarship in the German-speaking world. Included in the entry are his interlocutors in Renaissance philosophy scholarship. Also included in the entry is the review work of Renaissance material that Dilthey wrote over the course of his academic career.
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Dilthey, Wilhelm. 1914. Weltanschauung und Analyse des Menschen seit Renaissance und Reformation. Gesammelte Schriften V. 2.. Leipzig: Teubner.
Dilthey, Wilhelm. 2010. On Jacob Burckhardt’s the civilization of the renaissance in Italy. In Hermeneutics and the study of history, vol. 4, ed. Rudolf A. Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Cacciatore, Giuseppe. 1997. Dilthey e Cassirer interpreti del Rinascimento. Rinascimento XXXVII: 45–63.
Cacciatore, Giuseppe. 2011. Garin e Dilthey. In Eugenio Garin, Dal Rinascimento all’Illuminismo, ed. Catanorchi Olivia and Lepri Valentina, 295–319. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
Gianturco, Elio. 1952. The Italian renaissance in the estimates of Emile Gebhart and Dilthey. Comparative Literature 4(3): 268–276.
Frohman, Larry. 1995. Neo-stoicism and the transition to modernity in Wilhelm Dilthey’s philosophy of history. Journal of the History of Ideas 56(2): 263–287.
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Luft, Sebasatian. 2004. Leinkauf, Thomas, (ed.), Dilthey und Cassirer: Die Deutung der Neuzeit als Muster von Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte (Review). Journal of the History of Philosophy 42(4): 504–506.
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Garlitz, D. (2016). Dilthey, Wilhelm. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1111-1
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