Dilthey Selected Writings

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.