Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
Apr 30, 1979
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521295882
ISBN-13
9780521295888
Description
Dilthey is a figure of real importance in European philosophy and social theory. He exerted a significant influence on Husserl, Heidegger and Weber (among others) through his work on the nature of philosophy and the methodology and epistemology of human and social studies. He was also a distinguished and original historian of ideas and, indeed, many of his philosophical interests arose from the insights and practical difficulties he encountered as a historian. He produced a monumental biography of Schleiermacher, and a series of shorter, but no less striking studies of Hegel, Dickens, Shakespeare, Schiller and many others.
Genres
Biography
Philosophy
Nature