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Perhaps no philosopher has so fully explored the nature and conditions of historical understanding as Wilhelm Dilthey. His work, conceived overall as a Critique of Historical Reason and developed through his well-known theory of the human studies, provides concepts and methods still fruitful for those concerned with analyzing the human condition. Despite the increasing recognition of Dilthey's contributions, relati­ vely few of his writings have as yet appeared in English translation. It is therefore both timely and useful to have available here two works drawn from different phases in the development of his philosophy. The ""Ideas Concerning a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology"" (1894), now translated into English for the first time, sets forth Dilthey's programma­ tic and methodological viewpoints through a descriptive psychology, while ""The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Expressions of Life"" (ca. 1910) is representative of his later hermeneutic approach to historical understanding. DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE HUMAN STUDIES Dilthey presented the first mature statement of his theory of the human studies in volume one of his Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (Introduction to the Human Studies), published in 1883. He argued there that for the proper study of man and history we must eschew the metaphysical speculation of the absolute idealists while at the same time avoiding the scientistic reduction of positivism.

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Author:   W. Dilthey ,  Richard M. Zaner ,  K.L. Heiges
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.299kg
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9789024719518

ISBN 10:   9024719518
Pages:   147
Publication Date:   31 March 1978
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Descriptive Psychology and the Human Studies.- Lived Experience, Understanding and Description.- Structure and Development in Psychic Life.- Psychology and Hermeneutics.- Understanding, Re-experiencing and Historical Interpretation.- Ideas concerning a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology (1894).- I: The Problem of a Psychological Foundation for the Human Studies.- II: Distinction between Explanatory and Descriptive Psychology.- III: Explanatory Psychology.- IV: Descriptive and Analytic Psychology.- V: Relationships between Explanatory Psychology and Descriptive Psychology.- VI: Possibility and Conditions of the Solution of the Task of a Descriptive Psychology.- VII: The Structure of Psychic Life.- VIII: The Development of Psychic Life.- IX: Study of the Differences of Psychic Life: The Individual.- Remark.- The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Expressions of Life.- I. Expressions of Life.- II. The Elementary Forms of Understanding.- III. Objective Spirit and Elementary Understanding.- IV. The Higher Forms of Understanding.- V. Projecting, Re-creating, Re-experiencing.- VI. Exegesis or Interpretation.- Appendices.

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