Rudolf A. Makkreel

Charles Howard Candler Professor

Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

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philrm@emory.edu

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966

Research: German philosophy since Kant with special emphasis on phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and philosophy of history.

Selected Publications: Author of Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton 1975, 1992); Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Import of the "Critique of Judgment" (Chicago, 1995). Co-Editor of a six-volume translation of Dilthey's Selected Works (Poetry and Experience, Princeton, 1985); Introduction to the Human Sciences (Princeton, 1989); Hermeneutics and the Study of History (1996); The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (Princeton, 2002); and of The Ethics of History (Northwestern, 2004). Currently at work on a book entitled Interpretation and Historical Judgment.

Fellowships and Honors: Journal of the History of Philosophy, Book Review Editor (1981-83), Editor (1983-98), President of Board (1998-present); Alexander von Humboldt Fellow; Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, DAAD, Thyssen Foundation, and Volkswagen Foundation.

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