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| Universal history: Universal history deals with the history of mankind as a whole. It examines the connections and interactions between the various cultures and civilizations of the world. See also history, world history, historiography, cultures, civilization._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Wilhelm Dilthey on Universal History - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 203 Universal History/Dilthey/Gadamer: The ideal of universal history [must (...)] gain a special problematic for the historical view of the world, insofar as the book of history is a fragment that breaks off in darkness for every present. The universal context of history lacks the closure that a text possesses for philologists and which, for the historian, seems to make a life story, for example, but also the history of a past nation that has retreated from the scene of world history, even the history of an epoch that is finished and lies behind us, into a finished whole of meaning, a text that can be understood in itself. >Historiography. (...) Dilthey [also] thought (...) from such relative units, and thus continued to build entirely on the basis of romantic hermeneutics. What is to be understood here and there is a whole of meaning that finds itself here and there in the same detachment from the understanding itself. It is always a foreign individuality that must be judged according to its own concepts, standards of value, etc., and that can nevertheless be understood, because you and I are of the same life. GadamerVsDilthey: This is how far the hermeneutical basis can go. But neither this detachment of the object from its interpreter nor the closure of the meaning of a whole can support the historian's most important task, the universal history. For history is not only not at the end - we stand in it as the understanders themselves, as a conditional and finite link in a rolling chain. >W. Dilthey._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Dilth I W. Dilthey Gesammelte Schriften, Bd.1, Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen 1990 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-26