Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies

Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents - Preface ix Acknowledgments xii Abbreviations xiv Introduction: Toward an Aesthetic of History 3 The Problems of Systematic Unity and Developmental Coherence 4 The Role of Dilthey�s Aesthetics 15 Dilthey and a Kantian Aesthetic of History 17 The Poetic Imagination and Historical Style 26 PART ONE: Theoretical Background History and the Theory of the Geisteswissenschaften Meaning of the Term Geisteswissenschaften 35 Einleitung as a Bio-Bibliographical Reference Point 44 History and Descriptive Psychology 52 The Relation of Psychology to the Natural Sciences 59 Psychology and the Other Human Studies 63 The System of the Geisteswissenschaften 69 PART TWO: The Concept of the Imagination - Psvchology and the Poetic Imagination 77 The Three Tasks of a Poetics 81 The Laws of Imaginative Metamorphosis 90 The Imagination and the Apprehension of Style 109 Aesthetic Norms and Poetic Erlebnis 117 Spheres of Feeling and Aesthetic Principles 118 The Primacy of Structure and the Possibility of Defining Individuality 131 Poetic Imagination Structurally Defined in Terms of Erlebnis 141 Two Types of Poetic Imagination 149 The True Sanity of the Poet 15 3 - Fi'om Synthesis to Articulation 160 Three Kinds of Synthesis 175 imagination as Synthetic and as Analytic 180 Imagination as Harmonizing and as Intersecting 186 imagination as Expressive and as Articulating Poetic Technique 190 PART THREE: A Hermeneutic Critique of Historical Reason 5 Reflective Experience and Historical Judgment 2�5 Comparative Psychology: From Reflex to Reflection 206 Psychology, Historical Understanding, and Reflective Experience Reflective Judgment and Systematic Order in Kant 226 Kant�s Aesthetic Judgment and Dilthey�s Historical Judgment 236 Hermeneutics and Historical Understanding 247 Erlebnis and Verstehen - Versteken and Interpretation 255 Schleiermacher and Critical Hermeneutics 262 Hermeneutics and History 267 - 7 Phenomenology and the Re-evaluation of Psychology 273 Husserl and Dilthey: An Exchange of Views 274 Psychic Structure and the Self-Transcendence of Erlebnis 279 From Description to Expression - The Re-evaluation of Psychology 294 The Hermeneutic Approach to the Geisteswissenschaften 199 8 Interpretation in the Historical World 3�5 Objective Spirit and the Historical Subject 306 Dynamic Systems and Historical Explanation 314 Types of Understanding and the Possibility of Nacherleben 322 The Theory of the Geisteswissenschaften: Status and Commentary 332 PART FOUR: Aesthetics and History 9 The Weltanschauungslehre and the Late Aesthetics 345 The Types and Structures of W eltanschauungen 346 The Imagination and the Disinterestedness of Erlebnis 356 Sprachphantasie and Musical Moods 364 Heidegger�s Critique of Dilthey�s Aesthetics 371 Anthropological Reflection and the Categories of Life 376 10 Style and the Conceptual Articulation of Historical Life 385 Time and the Presence of Erlebnis 386 Perspectives on a Concept of Style 399 Application in Critical Hermeneutics 413 Afterword to the Second Edition 423 Bibliography 447 Index 447 ISBN 9780691020976