Taking as its starting point recent claims that Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique de la Raison Dialectique was written as an attempt to overcome the historical relativism of Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire, the present article traces this covert dialogue back to a fundamental disagreement between the two men over the interpretation of Wilhelm Dilthey's anti-positivist theory of Verstehen or 'understanding'. In so doing it counters a longstanding tendency to emphasise the convergence of Aron and Sartre's philosophical interests prior to the break in their friendship occasioned by the onset of the Cold War, suggesting that the causes of their later, radical political divergence were pregnant within this earlier philosophical divergence.
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Iain Stewart
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 41–60
Time and Space in Time and Space
Mapping the Conceptual History of Mental Maps and Historical Consciousness
Janne Holmén
work, on the history of the concept of historicity ( Geschichtlichkeit ), he does not mention any use of historical consciousness before Wilhelm Dilthey in the late 1800s. 18 As far as I have been able to establish, the first use of historical
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 105–129
Klaus Oschema, Mette Thunø, Evan Kuehn, and Blake Ewing
interpersonal experiences but rather as a key component of transhistorical and transcultural understanding. Matravers mentions Wilhelm Dilthey as the source of this humanistic understanding but engages with Collingwood as its prominent twentieth
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 125–140
Alfred Betschart
. The journal's answer to the question was a clear “No.” Sartre was deemed an antiquated humanist, operating with Hegelian rather than Marxist concepts, 3 a philosopher closer to Wilhelm Dilthey and Max Weber than Karl Marx. 4 In 1962, Adam Schaff
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 77–91
Jennifer Dodge, Richard Holtzman, Merlijn van Hulst, and Dvora Yanow
as Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans Georg Gadamer. As we create the artefacts (language, objects and acts) that populate our lives, we embed within them what is meaningful to us (values, beliefs, feelings), in a representational or symbolic relationship. Each
On Shock Therapy
Modernist Aesthetics and American Underground Film
William Solomon
existence, one that would furnish a verbally mediated reflection of their predicament to those lacking the time to concentrate on and the ability to contemplate their situation. In sharp contrast, the trend exemplified first by Wilhelm Dilthey and then by
