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There has been a veritable Hegel Renaissance, especially in France and Germany. This renewed interest in Hegel is preoccupied with Hegel's metaphysical and religious ideas. The favorite work and the one having given rise to the most interesting discussions is the Phenomenology of the Spirit. The most remarkable book in this trend is Alexandre Kojëve, Introduction à la Lecture de Hegel-Leçons…
Dilthey's thought is very much alive today. In the spheres of history, biography and sociology one frequently comes upon ideas which have their-sometimes unacknowledged-source in his work. In other cases brief references to his im- portance are coupled with a recognition of the difficulties of presenting his ideas. For instance Mr F. Stern (in his selection of texts about history 'The Varieties…
The possibility of generalization and its success in the physical sciences rests, according to historicism, on the general uniformity of nature: upon the perhaps better described as amassumption similar circumstances similar things will happen. This principle, which is taken to be valid throughout space and time, is said to underlie the method of physica
During the Fall of 1972 I was asked by the program chairman for Southeast Asia for the 1973 Chicago conference of the Association for Asian Studies to organize a panel on Philippine Studies.
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