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In Part II, I tried to establish an internal dialogue on knowledge between contemporary Muslim critics and Ibn Khaldun, with a particular focus on the latter’s conception of the relation between philosophy and history. In this chapter, I would like to address the inter cultural dialogue by turning to the work of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), “the philosopher of the human sciences” (Makreel 1992 [1975]), who is perhaps best known for his critique of historical reason. In attempting to complete the critique of knowledge initiated by Kant, Dilthey saw his task as one of developing an epistemological foundation to the human sciences.
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Volume XXII of Dilthey’s German GesammelteSchriften was published in 2002. The publication of the proposed six-volume translated series Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, edited by Rudolf Makreel and Frithj of Rodi, is a major event in bringing Dilthey’s work to the English reading public. Hitherto, his work had been translated into English on a piecemeal basis. In this series, Volumes 1 and 3 are the most relevant for my purposes: Volume 1 (Dilthey 1989 [1883]) of the Selected Works series brings together Dilthey’s first volume of the Introduction to the Human Sciences (Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften) and drafts of his never-completed second volume, which appeared in separate issues in the GesammelteSchriften. Volume 3 (Dilthey 2002 [1910]) of the Selected Works series presents Dilthey’s “Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences”, written circa1904; The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (Der Aufbau der geschichtlichen Welt in den Geisteswissenschaften) written circa 1910,; and Plans for a Continuation of the Aufbau and other various drafts, plans and outlines for writings on the human sciences. More specifically, I’m focusing on Dilthey’s (1989 [1883]) early work in the Introduction to the Human Sciences (Einleitung) and Drafts for Volume 2 of the Einleitung, and on his later, more explicitly hermeneutic approach to the human sciences in (Dilthey 2002 [1910]) The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (Der Aufbau) and the Plans for a Continuation of the Aufbau.
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Zaidi, A. (2011). Dilthey and the Problem of Immanence. In: Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118997_5
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