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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.
This is the second volume in a six-volume translation of the
major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and
historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence
on Continental philosophy and a broad range of scholarly
disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of
history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important
contributions to hermeneutics, phenomenology, aesthetics,
psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences.
This volume presents Dilthey's main theoretical works from the
1890s, the period between the" Introduction to the Human Sciences"
and "The Formation of the Historical World." A common thread of the
writings included here is an interest in the relation between the
self and the world.
In "The Origin of Our Belief in the Reality of the External
World and Its Justification," Dilthey argues that our engagement
with the world is rooted in our practical drives and the resistance
they meet. The basic nexus of our beliefs about reality is
volitional rather than representational. The next essay, "Life and
Cognition," examines the main categories with which we organize our
experience of life into an understanding of the human world:
selfsameness; doing and undergoing; and essentiality.
These categorial relations are further articulated with the aid
of Dilthey's structural psychology in ways that rival some of the
insights of phenomenology. This occurs in "The Ideas for a
Descriptive and Analytic Psychology." By focusing on how lived
experience places everything in a temporal continuum that can be
described and analyzed, Dilthey saw the opportunity to establish a
structural psychology that could be of great use to the human
sciences in general.
In the final essay, "Contributions to the Study of
Individuality," Dilthey attacks Windelband's thesis that the human
sciences are idiographic. Many human sciences have systematic and
structural aims that combine the study of uniformities with the
examination of individuation. Applying the comparative method,
Dilthey argues that living beings share many basic similarities
within which typical variations tend to recur. For human
individuation, however, the specification of the historical nexus
is also essential.
This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major
writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and
historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence
on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human sciences.
These volumes make available to English readers texts that
represent the full range of Dilthey's work. The works in this
volume present Dilthey's most deeply held views about philosophy
and how it can guide human practices. System of Ethics (1890)
argues that Humean sympathy motivates us only externally and must
be replaced with the internally motivated fellow-feeling of
solidarity that respects others as ends in themselves. The Essence
of Philosophy (1907) demonstrates how philosophy has developed from
its traditional metaphysical role to the epistemological and
encyclopedic functions that ground and order the natural and human
sciences. The work also discloses an orientational function of
philosophy that is explored further in "The Types of World-View and
Their Development" (1911). Philosophical world-views are important
in that they address the existential needs and riddles that grow
out of life experience and are not solved by any of the sciences.
In addition, the book features three other significant essays.
"Present Day Culture and Philosophy" (1898) concerns the challenges
to philosophy posed by contemporary culture. "Dream" (1903) is
about the thinkers portrayed in Raphael's School of Athens and
Dilthey's worries about them breaking up into three divergent
groups. Finally, "The Problem of Religion" (1911) considers how
religiosity can still inform lived experience in secular times.
"Introduction to the Human Sciences" carries forward a projected
six-volume translation series of the major writings of Wilhelm
Dilthey (1833-1911)--a philosopher and historian of culture who has
had a strong and continuing influence on twentieth-century
Continental philosophy as well as a broad range of other scholarly
disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of
history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important
contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics,
psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. The
Selected Works will make accessible to English-speaking readers the
full range of Dilthey's thought, including some historical essays
and literary criticism. The series provides translations of
complete texts, together with editorial notes, and contains
manuscript materials that are currently being published for the
first time in Germany.
This volume brings together the various parts of the
Introduction to the Human Sciences published separately in the
German edition. Rudolf Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi have underscored
the systematic character of Dilthey's theory of the human sciences
by translating the bulk of Dilthey's first volume (published in
1883) and his important drafts for the never-completed second
volume.
This volume provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation
of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three "Studies
Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences," in which Dilthey
refashions Husserlian concepts to describe the basic structures of
consciousness relevant to historical understanding.
The volume next presents the major 1910 work "The Formation of
the Historical World in the Human Sciences." Here Dilthey considers
the degree to which carriers of history--individuals, cultures,
institutions, and communities--can be articulated as productive
systems capable of generating value and meaning and of realizing
purposes. Hegel's idea of objective spirit is reconceived in a more
empirical form to designate the medium of commonality in which
historical beings are immersed. Any universal claims about history
need to be framed within the specific productive systems analyzed
by the various human sciences. Dilthey's drafts for the
Continuation of the "Formation" contain extensive discussions of
the categories most important for our knowledge of historical life:
meaning, value, purpose, time, and development. He also examines
the contributions of autobiography to historical understanding and
of biography to scientific history.
The finest summary of Dilthey's views on hermeneutics can be
found in "The Understanding of Other Persons and Their
Manifestations of Life." Here, Dilthey differentiates understanding
relative to three kinds of manifestations of life. After giving his
analysis of elementary understanding, he examines the role of
induction in higher understanding and interpretation, and the
relevance of transposition and re-experiencing for grasping
individuality.
This is the fifth volume in a six-volume translation of the
major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and
historian of culture who has had a significant, and continuing,
influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a
broad range of scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark
works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey
made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology,
aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social
sciences.
This volume presents Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics
and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as
representative essays of literary criticism. The essay "The
Imagination of the Poet" (also known as his "Poetics") is his most
sustained attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of
literature in relation to psychological and historical theory. Also
included are "The Three Epochs of Modern Aesthetics and its Present
Task," "Fragments for a Poetics," and two final essays discussing
Goethe and Holderlin. The latter are drawn from "Das Erlebnis und
die Dichtung," a volume that was acclaimed on publication as a
classic of literary criticism and that continues to be a model for
the "geistesgeschichtliche "approach to literary history."
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