Wilhelm Dilthey

Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-691-14933-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

This volume provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three "Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences," in which Dilthey refashions Husserlian concepts to describe the basic structures of consciousness relevant to historical understanding.The volume next presents the major 1910 work The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Here Dilthey considers the degree to which carriers of history--individuals, cultures, institutions, and communities--can be articulated as productive systems capable of generating value and meaning and of realizing purposes. Hegel's idea of objective spirit is reconceived in a more empirical form to designate the medium of commonality in which historical beings are immersed. Any universal claims about history need to be framed within the specific productive systems analyzed by the various human sciences. Dilthey's drafts for the Continuation of the Formation contain extensive discussions of the categories most important for our knowledge of historical life: meaning, value, purpose, time, and development. He also examines the contributions of autobiography to historical understanding and of biography to scientific history. The finest summary of Dilthey's views on hermeneutics can be found in "The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Manifestations of Life." Here, Dilthey differentiates understanding relative to three kinds of manifestations of life. After giving his analysis of elementary understanding, he examines the role of induction in higher understanding and interpretation, and the relevance of transposition and re-experiencing for grasping individuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dilthey, Wilhelm

Makkreel, Rudolf A.

Rodi, Frithjof

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Hermeneutik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE TO ALL VOLUMES xi

EDITORIAL NOTE TO VOLUME iii xv

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME iii 1

PART I

STUDIES TOWARD THE FOUNDATION OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES

Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and John Scanlon

FIRST STUDY

The Psychic Structural Nexus 23

I. Task, Method, and Outline of the Foundation 24

1. The Task 24

2. The Task of the Theory of Knowledge 27

3. The Foundational Method Used Here 28

4. Point of Departure for a Description of the Processes in which Knowledge Originates 29

5. The Place of this Description in the System of the Foundation 32

II. Descriptive Preliminary Concepts 34

1. Psychic Structure 34

2. The Apprehension of Psychic Structure 38

3. Structural Units 40

4. The Structural Nexus 42

5. The Kinds of Structural Relation 43

SECOND STUDY

The Structural Nexus of Knowledge 45

I. Objective Apprehension 45

1. Delimitation of Objective Apprehension 45

2. The Relation between Lived Experience and Psychic Object 46

3. The Relation between Intuition and Sensory Objects 54

4. The Structure of the Lived Experiences of Apprehension 57

5. Lived Experiences of Apprehension as Structural Unities and Their Inner Relations to One Another 57

II. Objective Having 66

1. Feeling 66

1. Delimiting Lived Experiences of Feeling 67

2. The General Nature of the Attitude in the Lived Experience of Feeling 69

3. The Structural Unity of the Lived Experience of Feeling 71

4. Structural Relations between Feelings 75

5. The System of the Relations between Feelings as Delimited from the Systems of Objective Apprehension and of Willing 77

Supplement: Completion of the Inner Teleology of the Structural Nexus of Feelings in Objective Formations 79

2. Willing 82

First Fragment 82

1. The Scope of Its Lived Experiences 82

2. Analysis of Willing 84

Second Fragment 87

1. The Foundation of Willing in Objective Apprehension and in Feeling 87

2. Delimiting Willing from Feeling 87

3. The Structural Unity of the Volitional Attitude 89

4. The Levels of Structural Unity in Lived Experience and the Relations between Lived Experiences 89

5. The System of Lived Experiences in the Volitional Attitude 90

THIRD STUDY

The Delimitation of the Human Sciences (Third Draft) 91

PART II

THE FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORLD IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES

Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and John Scanlon

I. Delimitation of the Human Sciences 101

II. Different Modes of Formation in the Natural Sciences and in the Human Sciences 109

Historical Orientation 109

III. General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences 142

Section One: Objective Apprehension 143

Section Two: The Structure of the Human Sciences 152

Chapter I: Life and the Human Sciences 152

Chapter II: The Procedural Modes in Which the World of the Human Spirit Is Given 160

Chapter III: The Objectifications of Life 168

Chapter IV: The World of Human Spirit as a Productive Nexus 174

PART III

PLAN FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORLD IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES

Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and William H. Oman

Drafts for a Critique of Historical Reason 213

Section One: Lived Experience, Expression, and Understanding 213

I. Lived Experience and Autobiography 213

1. The Task of a Critique of Historical Reason 213

2. Reflexive Awareness, Reality: Time 214

3. The Life-Nexus 218

4. Autobiography 221

Supplement to 3: The Life-Nexus 223

II. The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Manifestations of Life 226

1. Manifestations of Life 226

2. Elementary Forms of Understanding 228

3. Objective Spirit and Elementary Understanding 229

4. The Higher Forms of Understanding 231

5. Transposition, Re-Creating and Re-Experiencing 234

6. Exegesis or Interpretation 237

Addenda 241

1. Musical Understanding 241

2. Lived Experience and Understanding 245

3. Methods of Understanding 245

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Emory University and the author of "Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies" (Princeton). Frithjof Rodi is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität, Bochum and one of the editors of "Dilthey's Gesammelte Schriften".