Dilthey's Biography

Author: [USA] M. Racle, translated by Li Chaojie
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: The first chapter provides a historical and theoretical background for Dilthey's philosophical development in his mature period. It discusses the theory of spiritual science and argues that this theory served as a guiding principle for the formation of his later ideas on psychology, aesthetics, historiography, and philosophy. The second part focuses on Dilthey's aesthetics as a typical spiritual science. The second chapter analyzes the concepts of poetic imagination, psychological structure, and style, and more generally examines several aesthetic essays as a primary step in addressing the issue of connecting different methods within spiritual science. The fourth chapter discusses the epistemological significance of Dilthey's concept of imagination. The third part involves the greatly misunderstood transition to Dilthey's hermeneutic views in his later works. In the pivotal fifth chapter, the possibility of more clearly linking the psychological and historical is explored by utilizing the reflective experiences proposed by Dilthey. The seventh chapter examines the intellectual exchange between Dilthey and Husserl, aiming to determine to what extent the author felt compelled to rearticulate his psychological description of experience.