...The distinction between the humanities and the natural sciences is often described in terms of two types of description, “thick” versus “thin,” or two modes of apprehension, “interpretation” (Verstehen) versus “explanation” (Erklären). This chapter argues...

... Moore Marianne Rilke Rainer Maria anagogy category Matthiessen F O metaphor Richards I A Blake William Dante Herbert George Hölderlin Friederich La Fontaine Jean de Milton John Prokosch Frederic Ruskin John Verstehen Empson William Spender Stephen Pope Alexander figuration Aquinas...

... and doctrinal orthodoxy explicitly invokes the internal point of view — from which is derived a commitment to consistency, coherence, and rational reconstruction — the heresy explicitly or implicitly rejects that method. The initial step for the heretic is to loosen the hold of the Verstehen method...

... establishes that orthodox accounts of adjudication begin by deploying the Verstehen method. This is clearly the correct starting point, but the orthodox fail to get to grips with at least one difficult snag that method faces, namely, the plurality problem. There are other snags that allegedly ensnare...

... Diamond Cora Maatsch Jonas Novalis Friedrich von Hardenberg beauty imagination Naturphilosophie Hegel Georg Friedrich Wilhelm “Oldest System Program of German Idealism ” Burge Tyler Beauty and truth cognitive value of literature Erklären versus Verstehen German idealism German romanticism...

.... They explain his basic concepts, such as ideal type, values and value-free science, Verstehen, and the notion of causality that is appropriate to social and historical concepts. These ideas have often been misrepresented in the subsequent literature but remain a powerful source of insight...

... of the foundational ethnographies in cultural criminology. It next documents the dynamic interplay between ethnography and theory in cultural criminology, especially in regard to the concept of verstehen. The chapter then considers ethnographic innovations in cultural criminology, among them instant...

...Contemporary Austrian economics and the new economic sociology have much in common. First, they share intellectual influences, especially Max Weber. Second, they offer similar critiques of neoclassical economics, and both stress the importance of Verstehen. Third, they have complementary...

... is also examined in detail. It is argued that Droysen, not Dilthey, is the true father of the method of historical understanding or Verstehen. Droysen J positivism hermeneutics Hegel G W F history individuality principle of holism Descartes R objectivity historical...

... new religious movements lawyers therapists Verstehen Religious pluralism is by no means a new phenomenon, but with increasing globalization, migration, the expansion of the mass media, and most recently the spread of the Internet, the visibility of new religious movements (NRMs) would seem to have...

... psychology social sciences Verstehen Dieks Dennis Hempel Carl G hermeneutic circle judgment objectivist views of explanation and understanding objectivity Schleiermacher Friedrich relativism skills Strevens Michael consistency values Van Fraassen Bas C Feynman diagrams Kuhn Thomas S...

... Henry Thomas Droysen Johann historicism Lazarus Mortiz Steinthal Heymann Sybel Heinrich von Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Humboldt Wilhelm von Zeller Eduard Hempel Carl Marx Karl nomothetic explanations Quine W V O history philosophy of Kuhn Thomas explanation verstehen understanding...

...Chapter 3 addresses the topic of law and interdisciplinarity and the question of the meaning of the “and” in Law and Literature and Law and the Humanities. It discusses the Erklären-Verstehen controversy in the scientific and hermeneutic debate...

..., interpretation (Verstehen), and the science of religion (Religionswissenschaft), and his personal relationships with members of the so-called Conservative Revolution. These aspects are examined in an effort to illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of his thought in its...