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Wilhelm Dilthey
a hermeneutic approach to the study of history and culture
Abstract
In the Introduction to the Human Sciences, Dilthey had indicated that Verstehen was the proper method by which to understand history. After 1883, Dilthey revised his conception of knowledge of the human world. He now felt that to know the human world is not an act of Verstehen of man’s experiences, but an act of interpretation — a “hermeneutic” act — of products created by man and in which he has expressed his experiences. In the human sciences, life and experience themselves are beyond empirical investigation; but the expressions of life and experience are not. The products of human experience, said Dilthey, including architecture as well as systems of law, documents as well as musical compositions, may be regarded as texts to be interpreted.1
Details | Table of Contents
pp.80-109
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8869-9_5Dilthey on the meaning of history
pp.110-131
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8869-9_6the key to Dilthey's conception of history and culture
pp.132-162
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8869-9_7Dilthey's views on the concrete course of history
pp.163-192
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8869-9_8Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 1980
Pages: 233
Series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library
Series volume: 2
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-009-8871-2
ISBN (digital): 978-94-009-8869-9
Full citation:
(1980) Wilhelm Dilthey: a hermeneutic approach to the study of history and culture. Dordrecht, Springer.