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Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833–1911)

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List of works

  • Dilthey, W. (1914–90) Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Works), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 20 vols.

    (The standard complete works.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1985–) Selected Works, ed. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 6 vols.

    (Vol. 1 (1989), vol. 4, Hermeneutics and the Study of History (1996), and vol. 5, Poetry and Experience (1985), are the three volumes now in print.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1883, 1982) Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften, trans. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, Introduction to the Human Sciences, in Selected Works, ed. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, vol. 1, 1989.

    (Includes all of Book One and materials from Books Two, Four, Five, and Six.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1894) ‘Ideen über eine beschreibende und zergliedernde Psychologie’, trans. R. Zaner and K. Heiges, ‘Ideas Concerning a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology’, in Descriptive Psychology and Historical Understanding, with intro. by R.A. Makkreel, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977.

    (The translated volume also contains ‘The Understanding of Other Persons’.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1900) ‘Entstehung der Hermeneutik’, trans. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, ‘The Rise of Hermeneutics’, in Hermeneutics and the Study of History, vol. 4 of Selected Works, ed. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

    (This volume of the Selected Works also contains ‘Das hermeneutische System Schleiermachers in der Auseinandersetzung mit der älteren protestantischen Hermeneutik’ (Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutic, A System in Relation to Earlier Protestant Hermeneutics) (1960).)

  • Dilthey, W. (1910) Der Aufbau der geschichtlichen Welt in den Geisteswissenschaften, trans. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences, in Selected Works, ed. R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, vol. 3, (forthcoming).

    (Here Dilthey comes closest to working out his Critique of Historical Reason.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1911) Die Typen der Weltanschauung und ihre Ausbildung in den metaphysischen Systemen, trans. W. Kluback and M. Weinbaum, Types of Worldview and their Development in Metaphysical Systems, in Dilthey’s Philosophy of Existence, New York: Bookman Associates, 1957.

    (Relates worldviews in poetry, religion and philosophy.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1976) Selected Writings, ed. H.P. Rickman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (Contains excerpts from various works, including The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (1910).)

References and further reading

  • Ermarth, M. (1978) Wilhelm Dilthey: The Critique of Historical Reason, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    (A comprehensive account of Dilthey’s thought with a good historical background.)

  • Husserl, E. (1900–1) Logische Untersuchungen, trans. J.N. Findlay, Logical Investigations, London and New York: Routledge, 1977.

    (Classical formulation of the theory of the intentionality of consciousness and of such phenomenological concepts as act, content and object, expression and meaning.)

  • Husserl, E. (1910–11) ‘Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft’, trans. G. Laver, ‘Philosophy as a Rigorous Science’, in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

    (An attack on worldview philosophy as lacking in rigour.)

  • Makkreel, R.A. (1975, 1992) Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    (A developmental examination of Dilthey’s philosophy with special attention to its relation to Kant;updated to deal with recently published posthumous writings.)

  • Makkreel, R.A. and Scanlon, J. (1987) Dilthey and Phenomenology, Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of America.

    (Exploration of Dilthey’s relation to phenomenology by ten international scholars.)

  • Orth, E.W. (1985) Dilthey und die Philosophie der Gegenwart (Dilthey and Contemporary Philosophy), Freiburg, Alber Verlag.

    (Exploration of Dilthey’s relevance to a variety of topics by twelve scholars, including Apel and Gadamer.)

  • Owensby, J. (1994) Dilthey and the Narrative of History, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

    (A topical study focusing on recently published posthumous writings.)

  • Rodi, F. (1983–) Dilthey-Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Geschichte der Geisteswissenschaften (Dilthey-Yearbook for Philosophy and the History of the Human Sciences), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

    (Published essays on Dilthey and related figures and themes. Also provides bibliography updates.)

  • Rodi, F. and Lessing, H.-U. (1984) Materialien zur Philosophie Wilhelm Diltheys (Materials Relevant to the Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey), Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

    (A collection of classical essays on Dilthey by such thinkers as Scheler, Landgrebe, Bollnow, Plessner, Marcuse, Misch, Habermas and Gadamer.)

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