Can I read Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey on EtoBox?

Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey by Plantinga, Theodore is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey about?

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher who has influenced twentieth-century intellectual history via such thinkers as Heidegger, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset, and Max Scheler, is subjected to careful analysis in this book. What emerges is a reinterpretation of his theory of understanding (Verstehen) and historical knowledge. <BR>The concept of understanding for which Dilthey became famous was developed only after 1900, in the third and final phase of his career, but it was an approach to the problem or set of problems that had preoccupied him throughout his entire intellectual career. To delineate this doctrine and its place in Dilthey's thinking on history, the author discusses Dilthey's early views on history as a science, his efforts to divide the various sciences into two major types, and his attempt to develop a psychology that would serve as a foundation for the Geisteswissenschaften. The decisive shift in Dilthey's post-1900 thought came when he began to look beyond psychology to culture, to meaning-lade expressions of the human spirit. The understanding of these expressions in the other public world, he decided, was the basic cognitive operation on which the Geisteswissensc

Who reads Historical Understanding in the Thought of Wilhelm Dilthey?

Author

Plantinga, Theodore

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487579814

Category

nonfiction