Descriptive Psychology and Historical Understanding
Perhaps no philosopher has so fully explored the nature and conditions of historical understanding as Wilhelm Dilthey. His work, conceived overall as a Critique of Historical Reason and developed through his well-known theory of the human studies, provide
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DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING
by WILHELM DIL THEY translated by
RICHARD M. ZANER AND KENNETH L. HEIGES with an introduction by
RUDOLF A. MAKKREEL
MARTIN US NUHOFF / THE HAGUE / 1977
"Ideas concerning a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology (1894)," translated by Richard M. Zaner, originally appeared as: Wilhelm Dilthey, "Ideen iiber eine beschreibende und zergliedemde Psychologie," from Wilhelm Dilthey's Gesammelte Schriften, V. Band: Die Geistige Welt, Erste Halfte ("Abhandlungen zur Orundlegung der Oeisteswissenschaften") (Leipzig und Berlin: B.O. Teubner, 1924), pp. 139-240. "The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Expressions of Life," translated by Kenneth L. Heiges, originally appeared as: Wilhelm Dilthey, "Das Verstehen anderer Personen und ihrer Lebensausserungen," Gesammelte Schriften, Band VII (Leipzig und Berlin: B.O. Teubner, 1927), pp. 205-227.
© 1977 by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form TSBN-13: 978-90-247-1951-8
DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-9658-8
e-TSBN-13: 978-94-009-9658-8
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
VII
INTRODUCTION
by Rudolf A. Makkreel
3
Descriptive Psychology and the Human Studies
3
Lived Experience, Understanding and Description
4
Structure and Development in Psychic Life
8
Psychology and Hermeneutics
11
Understanding, Re-experiencing and Historical Interpretation
13
IDEAS CONCERNING A DESCRIPTIVE AND ANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY
(1894)
translated by Richard M. Zaner
21
Chapter I: The Problem of a Psychological Foundation for the Human Studies
23
Chapter II: Distinction between Explanatory and Descriptive Psychology
37
Chapter III: Explanatory Psychology
41
Chapter IV: Descriptive and Analytic Psychology
51
Chapter V: Relationships between Explanatory Psychology and Descriptive Psychology
72
Chapter VI: Possibility and Conditions of the Solution of the Task of a Descriptive Psychology
78
Chapter VII: The Structure of Psychic Life
81
Chapter VIII: The Development of Psychic Life
94
Chapter IX: Study of the Differences of Psychic Life: The Individua1106 Remark
117
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VI
THE UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER PERSONS AND THEIR EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE
translated by Kenneth L. Heiges I. Expressions of Life II. The Elementary Forms of Understanding
121 123 125
III. Objective Spirit and Elementary Understanding
126
IV. The Higher Forms of Understanding
128
V. Projecting, Re-creating, Re-experiencing
132
VI. Exegesis or Interpretation
135
Appendices
139
INDEX
145
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my deep appreciation to Professors Frank Jakobsh and Rolf George of the University of Waterloo, whose assistance, suggestions and encouragement were invaluable throughout the early stages ofthe preparation of my portion ofthe translation, and to Gabriele Hanowski for her kind assistance in sorting out the fmal problems. Kenneth L. Heiges
We are most grateful to Professor Rudolf Makkreel for his carefu
