1st Edition
Pattern and Meaning in History (RLE Social Theory) Wilhelm Dilthey's Thoughts on History and Society
Edited By H.P. Rickman
Copyright 2015
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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'One may state Dilthey's significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science. Dilthey's sweep was universal: he strove to reduce to order the multifarious realms of knowledge, the conflicting traditions of cultural study, that he had embraced. Thus Dilthey laid out a program that... Read more
1. The Historical World and the Methods of History 2. The Historical Relevance of Autobiography and Biography 3. Individual Life and its Meaning 4. The Understanding of Others and the Objective Mind 5. The Historical Approach and the Order of the Human World 6. Meaning and Historical Relativity
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H.P. Rickman
