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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. (shrink)

G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God’s purpose. At the beginning of this masterwork, Hegel writes: “What the history of Philosophy shows us is a succession of noble minds, a gallery of heroes of thought, who, by the power of Reason, have penetrated into the being of things, of nature and of spirit, into the Being of God, and have won for us by their labours the (...) highest treasure, the treasure of reasoned knowledge.” In his introduction to this Bison Book edition, Frederick C. Beiser notes the complex and controversial history of Hegel’s text. He makes a case that this English-language translation by E. S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson is still the most reliable one. (shrink)

This interdisciplinary work provides the conditions for the possibility of rethinking the foundations of hermeneutics in relation to postmodern concerns regarding the political and the aesthetic, and makes a major contribution to a new philosophy of film and post-Heideggerian thought.

1. Altertum. Indische, chinesische, griechisch-römische Philosophie -- 2. Mittelalter -- 3. Renaissance -- 4. Frühe Neuzeit -- 5. Bibliographie 18. und 19. Jahrhundert -- 6. Bibliographie 20. Jahrhundert.

La vie historique est un complément essentiel aux recherches de Dilthey sur la fondation des sciences humaines. Il y développe une philosophie qui prend en compte tant la vie que l'histoire, l'individu que les communautés et structures dans lesquelles il s'intègre. L'articulation entre la vie, l'expression et la compréhension en constitue un élément essentiel qui l'inscrit au coeur de l'herméneutique. L'ouvrage apporte ainsi un complément essentiel aux recherches qui, en France, ont opposé de manière très radicale la pensée de la (...) structure et la connaissance de l'individu et de son inscription singulière dans le monde. (shrink)