Introduction to the Human Sciences: An Attempt to Lay a Foundation for the Study of Society and History

by Wilhelm Dilthey

Book Overview

For some two centuries, scholars have wrestled with questions regarding the nature and logic of history as a discipline and, more broadly, with the entire complex of the "human sciences, " with include theology, philosophy, history, literature, the fine arts, and languages. The fundamental issue is whether the human sciences are a special class of studies with a specifically distinct object and method or whether they must be subsumed under the natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814318983
• ISBN13: 9780814318980
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"