The Riddle of the Sphinx: Interpreting the Human World

by Hans Peter Rickman

This book is a collection of essays on the philosophy and methodology of the human sciences. There is increasing recognition that the study of the human world - much needed in the face of human problems - cannot confine itself to the methods of the physical sciences, because not only the observation of behavior but understanding of communications is required, W. Dilthey, whom Dr. Rickman has introduced to a wider English-speaking public by his writings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083863995X
• ISBN13: 9780838639955
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 222 Pages