Dilthey’s Introduction to the Human Sciences

Graduate / Professional

Advanced reading course focused on Wilhelm Dilthey’s major, unfinished work, Introduction to the Human Sciences (1883–1911). A multivolume publication we read through slowly but also always something beyond the book—a plan, a project, a program of work—Dilthey’s Introduction asks readers to inhabit an expressive atmosphere, where modern historical science, Romantic epistemology and poetics, literary biography, and experimental psychology intersect and inform each other. Students prepare portions of the text for each meeting and work toward a final project of their own. Instructor permission required. M 4pm-5:55pm