Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism / / Charles R. Bambach.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bambach, Charles R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The collapse of historicism was not merely the demise of an academic tradition but signified a shift in the understanding of hermeneutics and metaphysics. Whereas earlier books have explored the rise and dominance of historicism within academic history, this is the first to trace its collapse and to show how it was shaped by larger philosophical and scientific concerns. Charles R. Bambach's lucid account of the demise of historicism within the context of German metaphysics provides a rich new perspective on the development of the young Heidegger's concept of "historicity" and on the origins of postmodern thought.Bambach reconstructs the methodological debates arising from a pervasive sense of crisis among German philosophers in the late nineteenth century. He details the divergent attempts by the Neo-Kantians, Nietzsche, and Dilthey to overcome the limitations of historical relativism. Heidegger's view of "historicity," Bambach shows, radically transforms the problematic of historicism into a discourse concerning the crisis of philosophical modernity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity and Crisis -- CHAPTER ONE. German Philosophy between Scientism and Historicism -- CHAPTER TWO. Wilhelm Windelband's Taxonomy of the Sciences -- CHAPTER THREE. Heinrich Rickert's Epistemology of Historical Science -- CHAPTER FOUR. Wilhelm Dilthey's Critique of Historical Reason -- CHAPTER FIVE. "The Time Is Out of Joint": The Young Heidegger's Destruktion of Historicism -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index