Introduction to the Human Sciences: An Attempt to Lay a Foundation for the Study of Society and History - Hardcover

Dilthey, Wilhelm; Betanzos, Ramon J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814318975 ISBN 13: 9780814318973

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Introduction to the Human Sciences carries forward a projected six-volume translation series of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)--a philosopher and historian of culture who has had a strong and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy as well as a broad range of other scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. The Selected Works will make accessible to English-speaking readers the full range of Dilthey's thought, including some historical essays and literary criticism. The series provides translations of complete texts, together with editorial notes, and contains manuscript materials that are currently being published for the first time in Germany.This volume brings together the various parts of the Introduction to the Human Sciences published separately in the German edition. Rudolf Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi have underscored the systematic character of Dilthey's theory of the human sciences by translating the bulk of Dilthey's first volume (published in 1883) and his important drafts for the never-completed second volume.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book is a pioneering effort to elaborate a general theory of the human sciences, especially history, and to distinguish these sciences radically from the field of natural sciences.

About the Author

Ramon J. Betanzos, a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, is an assistant professor in the Humanities Department at Wayne State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0814318975
• ISBN 13: 9780814318973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386