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The formation of the historical world in the human sciences

Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi and Wilhelm Dilthey c2002 © Princeton University Press
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Publisher's description: 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.
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  • 9780691149332 (paper)
  • 9780691096698 (hardcover)
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  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE TO ALL VOLUMES (page xi)
  • EDITORIAL NOTE TO VOLUME III (page xv)
  • INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME III (page 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 (page 23)
    • SECOND STUDY The Structural Nexus of Knowledge (page 45)
    • THIRD STUDY The Delimitation of the Human Sciences (Third Draft) (page 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 (page 101)
    • II. Different Modes of Formation in the Natural Sciences and in the Human Sciences (page 109)
    • III. General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences (page 142)
  • 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 Section One: Lived Experience, Expression, and Understanding (page 213)
    • I. Lived Experience and Autobiography (page 213)
    • II. The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Manifestations of Life (page 226)
    • Addenda (page 241)
    • III. The Categories of Life (page 248)
    • IV. Biography (page 265)
  • Section Two: Conceptual Cognition of the Nexus of Universal History (page 271)
    • Introduction (page 271)
    • A First Projection of a Continuation of the Foundation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (page 273)
    • A Second Projection of a Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (page 248)
  • PART IV APPENDIX (Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and William H. Oman)
    • I. Supplements to the Studies on the Foundation of the Human Sciences (page 315)
    • II. Additions to the Formation of the Historical World (page 344)
  • GLOSSARY (page 369)
  • INDEX (page 383)
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JHP 42.1 (2004): 113-115 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/v042/42.1nelson.html
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