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Dilthey, Wilhelm - vĭlˈhĕlm dĭlˈtī, 1833–1911, German philosopher. He taught at the universities of Basel, Kiel, Breslau, and Berlin. He was one of the first to claim the independence of the human sciences as distinct from the natural sciences. Dilthey laid down a foundation of descriptive and analytic psychology on which to base a study of

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The Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey » Read Now
by H. A. Hodges. 384 pgs.

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Hermeneutics and the Study of History » Read Now
by Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi. 409 pgs.

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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...
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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 U
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Heidegger, Dilthey and the Crisis of Historicism » Read Now
by Charles R. Bambach. 300 pgs.

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Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Literature: A Study of Wilhelm Dilthey's Poetik » Read Now
by Edgar Lohner, Kurt Muller-Vollmer, F. W. Strothmann, Cornelis H. Van Schooneveld. 222 pgs.

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The Nineteenth Century (Chap. 8 "Dilthey") » Read Now
by C. L. Ten. 466 pgs.

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The Riddle of the Sphinx: Interpreting the Human World (Chap. 9 "Dilthey's Hermeneutics") » Read Now
by H. P. Rickman. 222 pgs.

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This book is a collection of essays on the philosophy and methodology of the human sciences. There is increasing recognition that the study of the human world-much needed in the face of human problems-cannot confine itself to the methods of the physical s
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The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory (Chap. 2 "Dilthey's Poetics of Force") » Read Now
by Stanley Corngold. 280 pgs.

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Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences (Chap. Seven "From Simulation to Structural Transposition: A Diltheyan Critique of Empathy and Defense of Verstehen") » Read Now
by Hans Herbert Kogler, Karsten R. Stueber. 318 pgs.

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The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present (Chap. VI "The 'Crisis of Historicism' I The Philosophic Critique: Cohen, Dilthey, Windelband, Rickert, Weber") » Read Now
by Georg G. Iggers. 366 pgs.

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Historicism ("Dilthey's Critique of Historical Reason" begins on p. 59) » Read Now
by Paul Hamilton. 214 pgs.

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Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. This edition has been fully revised and includes a new glossary of critical terms, fully updated bibliography, clear suggestions for additional reading, as well as new discussion of Historicism's relation to the...
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Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. This edition has been fully revised and includes a new glossary of critical terms, fully updated bibliography, clear suggestions for additional reading, as well as new discussion of Historicism's relation to the globalization debate. Historicism :*explains the theory and practice of historicism*presents the history of the term and its uses*introduces key thinkers in the field, from ancient Greece to the present*considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as post-colonialism, feminism and globalization.This compact, yet comprehensive guide enables students to understand and apply historicist approaches in their own studies.
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