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Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey (Paperback)
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Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey (Paperback)
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Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher who has influenced
twentieth-century intellectual history via such thinkers as
Heidegger, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset, and Max Scheler, is subjected
to careful analysis in this book. What emerges is a
reinterpretation of his theory of understanding (Verstehen) and
historical knowledge. The concept of understanding for which
Dilthey became famous was developed only after 1900, in the third
and final phase of his career, but it was an approach to the
problem or set of problems that had preoccupied him throughout his
entire intellectual career. To delineate this doctrine and its
place in Dilthey's thinking on history, the author discusses
Dilthey's early views on history as a science, his efforts to
divide the various sciences into two major types, and his attempt
to develop a psychology that would serve as a foundation for the
Geisteswissenschaften. The decisive shift in Dilthey's post-1900
thought came when he began to look beyond psychology to culture, to
meaning-lade expressions of the human spirit. The understanding of
these expressions in the other public world, he decided, was the
basic cognitive operation on which the Geisteswissenschaften,
including the historical sciences, could be built. Dilthey's
analysis of understanding, the core of his later philosophy, draws
on this hermeneutic tradition and advances it. His philosophical
outlook also has important existential applications that have
stimulated twentieth-century has important existential applications
that have stimulated twentieth-century thought. The central problem
for him was that of the relation between the individual and the
whole of wholes with which his life is interwoven, and his solution
was 'understanding, ' an ability which enables the individual to
transcend the confines of self and to seek communion with a more
encompassing whole.
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