id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3772 Wilhelm Dilthey - Wikipedia .html text/html 4478 557 54 Verstehen, literary theory, literary criticism, intellectual history, human sciences, hermeneutic circle, Geistesgeschichte, facticity As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science. He could be considered an empiricist,[17] in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions. ^ a b c d e f Wilhelm Dilthey, Selected Works, Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History, Princeton University Press, 2010, p. Dilthey, The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences, Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. Makkreel, Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies, Princeton University Press, 1992, p. Makkreel, Rudolf A., Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3772.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3772.txt