Dilthey Selected Writings

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Dilthey is a figure of real importance in European philosophy and social theory. He exerted a significant influence on Husserl, Heidegger and Weber (among others) through his work on the nature of philosophy and the methodology and epistemology of human and social studies. He was also a distinguished and original historian of ideas and, indeed, many of his philosophical interests arose from the insights and practical difficulties he encountered as a historian. He produced a monumental biography of Schleiermacher, and a series of shorter, but no less striking studies of Hegel, Dickens, Shakespeare, Schiller and many others. Contents Introduction 1. Dilthey as a Historian of Ideas The Schleiermacher Biography The Great Poetry of the Imagination 2. Dilthey's Approach to Psychology Ideas about a Descriptive and Analytical Psychology Goethe's Poetical Imagination 3. Dilthey's Philosophy of Life Dilthey's Conception of Philosophy Present-day Culture and Philosophy The Nature of Philosophy The Types of World-view and their Development in the Metaphysical Systems 4. Dilthey's Epistemology and Methodology An Introduction to the Human Studies The Construction of the Historical World in the Human Studies The Development of Hermeneutics Bibliography Index