Perhaps no philosopher has so fully explored the nature and
conditions of historical understanding as Wilhelm Dilthey. His
work, conceived overall as a Critique of Historical Reason and
developed through his well-known theory of the human studies,
provides concepts and methods still fruitful for those concerned
with analyzing the human condition. Despite the increasing
recognition of Dilthey's contributions, relati vely few of his
writings have as yet appeared in English translation. It is
therefore both timely and useful to have available here two works
drawn from different phases in the development of his philosophy.
The "Ideas Concerning a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology"
(1894), now translated into English for the first time, sets forth
Dilthey's programma tic and methodological viewpoints through a
descriptive psychology, while "The Understanding of Other Persons
and Their Expressions of Life" (ca. 1910) is representative of his
later hermeneutic approach to historical understanding. DESCRIPTIVE
PSYCHOLOGY AND THE HUMAN STUDIES Dilthey presented the first mature
statement of his theory of the human studies in volume one of his
Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (Introduction to the Human
Studies), published in 1883. He argued there that for the proper
study of man and history we must eschew the metaphysical
speculation of the absolute idealists while at the same time
avoiding the scientistic reduction of positivism.
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