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Pattern and meaning in history :Thoughts on history and society

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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 of History' 1957) pays tribute to Dilthey's continuing influence. 'It is only in the last decade or so that the implications of Dilthey's historical thought have been elaborated and, to some extent, popular- ized.' Yet he has to say that some of the greatest historians 'Burkhardt, Croce, Dilthey and Pieter Geyl for example-had to be omitted because none of their shorter writings embodied the essence of their thought sufficiently to be truly represen- tative. Similarly Professor Hughes (in Consciousness and Society

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901 Dil p

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London : George Allen., 1961

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ii, 169 pages

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English

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901

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HISTORY

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