The German historian and philosopher Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Dilthey (1833-1911) held that psychological principles should form the basis of historical and sociological research. Wilhelm Dilthey was born in Biebrich, a village in the Rhineland, on...

Wilhelm Dilthey, a man of extraordinary erudition even by nineteenth-century standards, made significant contributions to the fields of philosophy, cultural history, literary theory, psychology, and aesthetics. He is often viewed as the founder of the...

DILTHEY, WILHELM (1833–1911), German philosopher of history and intellectual historian. Dilthey was born in Biebrich am Rhein, where his father, a liberal Calvinist theologian, was court chaplain to the duke of Nassau. Following graduation at...

Dilthey, Wilhelm(1833–1911) The German philosopher and historian Wilhelm Dilthey was born in Biebrich on the Rhine, the son of the preacher to the Duke of Nassau. He studied theology and philosophy in Heidelberg and Berlin and combined both of...

Wilhelm Dilthey (IPA: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; November 19, 1833 – October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. Dilthey could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent...

This is a paperback second edition of one of the more highly esteemed English language works on Wilhelm Dilthey's philosophy as a whole. The work was originally published in What is new here is the "Afterword to the 2nd Edition." It was a...

Charles R. Bambach, Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1995. Pp. 14, 298. Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism traces the trajectory of German philosophy during the period from 1880 to the 1930s. Focusing on the consequences of the post-Hegelian crisis in...