The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey
(1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on
twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of
scholarly disciplines. This volume is the third to be published in
Princeton University Press's projected six-volume series of his
most important works. Part One makes available three of his works
on hermeneutics and its history: ""Schleiermacher's Hermeneutical
System in Relation to Earlier Protestant Hermeneutics"" (The Prize
Essay of 1860); "On Understanding and Hermeneutics" (1867-68),
based on student lecture notes, and the "The Rise of Hermeneutics"
(1900), which traces the history of hermeneutics back to
Hellenistic Greece. All the addenda to this well-known essay are
translated here, some for the first time. In them Dilthey
articulates three philosophical aporias concerning hermeneutics and
projects an ultimate convergence between understanding and
explanation.
Part Two provides translations of review essays by Dilthey on
Buckle's use of statistical history and on Burckhardt's cultural
history; an essay "Friedrich Schlosser and the Problem of Universal
History;" and a talk recalling his early years as a student of
Boeckh, Jakob Grimm, Mommsen, Ranke, and Ritter. It also contains
the important historical essay "The Eighteenth Century and the
Historical World," in which Dilthey reexamines the Enlightenment to
show its significant contributions to the rise of historical
consciousness.
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