Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume IV : : Hermeneutics and the Study of History / / Wilhelm Dilthey; ed. by Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Dilthey, Wilhelm,
• HerausgeberIn: Makkreel, Rudolf A.,; Rodi, Frithjof,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO ALL VOLUMES -- EDITORIAL NOTE TO VOLUME IV -- INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME IV -- PART I. HERMENEUTICS AND ITS HISTORY -- 1. Schleiermacher's Hermeneutical System in Relation to Earlier Protestant Hermeneutics (1860) -- 2. On Understanding and Hermeneutics: Student Lecture Notes (1867-68) -- 3. The Rise of Hermeneutics (1900) -- PART II. INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORY -- 4. History and Science (1862); On H . T. Buckle's, History of Civilization in England -- 5. On Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1862) -- 6. Friedrich Christoph Schlosser and the Problem of Universal History (1862) -- 7. The Eighteenth Century and the Historical World (1901) -- 8. Reminiscences on Historical Studies at the University of Berlin (1903) -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR