The Dawn of Historical Reason:The Historicality of Human Existence in the Thought of Dilthey, Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset (American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy, Vol. 163)

By Howard N. Tuttle

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 Jos 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820424536
• ISBN13: 9780820424538
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"