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Author(s): Arthur O. Lovejoy
Review by: Arthur O. Lovejoy
Source: The Philosophical Review, Vol. 19, No. 6 (Nov., 1910), pp. 665-667
Published by: Duke University Press on behalf of Philosophical Review
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL
REVIEW.
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No. 6.]
OF NEW BOOKS.
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HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY.
Die Philosophie im deutschenGeisteslebendes XIX. Jahrhunderts. Ftinf Vorlesungen von WILHELM WINDELBAND. TUbingen, J. C. B. Mohr, i9o9.pp. I20.
These lectures were delivered two years ago in Frankfurt a. M. before the
Free German Institute for Higher Studies. It is the author's hope and desire,
in giving to his spoken words the form of the printed page, to make clear to a
wider circle the essential nature of philosophy and the part that it plays in
the life of the German people at the present day.
Professor Windelband's treatment of the history of philosophy, as readers
of his larger works know, is never merely conventional or commonplace.
His writings exhibit not only an accurate acquaintance with the historical
facts, but also a rare interpretative insight,-the power of transforming facts
into ideas. When we add to these qualities literary excellence of a high order
as shown in the brilliant and finished exposition, we have a result that places
Windelbandfacile princes among present day historians of philosophy.
To exhibit the intimate connection of philosophy with the development of
the entire thought and culture of the Germanpeople throughout the nineteenth
century is an extremely difficult undertaking, especially when this is to be
done within the compass of five lectures. In spite of the difficulties of the
subject and the necessarylimitations of space, however, the author has drawn
a remarkably definite and instructive picture of the main intellectual forces
and movements that have shown themselves in Germany since the eighteenth
century. One feels as one reads that the whole exposition has been carefully
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