Wilhelm Dilthey and Historical Consciousness

International Conference

November 2nd-3rd, 2023

This conference aims at unfolding the fundamental relation of the development of Wilhelm Dilthey’s epistemology of the human sciences and his engagement and eventual confrontation with the rise of historical consciousness. 

Programme

(all times are UK time)

Day One

12:50-13:00 – Introduction (Aaron Turner)

13:00-14:00 – Laurence Hemming (Lancaster University) – ‘Dilthey . . . restrained himself from a systematic conclusion until the end’ (Martin Heidegger) – Should We Concur?

14:00-15:00 – Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky) – Thinking with Robert Scharff about Dilthey, Historical Consciousness, and Knowing

15:00-15:30 – Break

15:30-16:30 – Ronny Miron (Bar-Ilan University) – Historical Consciousness between Immanence and Transcendence

16:30-17:30 – Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) – Dilthey, the Historical School, and the Theory and Practice of History

17:30-18:00 – Break

18:00-19:00 –David Carr (Emory University) – “History sets us free”: Dilthey and the Paradoxes of Historical Consciousness

Day Two

13:00-14:00 – Matthias J. Tögel (Philipps-Universität Marburg) – How does Historical Consciousness become productive?

14:00-15:00 – Henriikka Hannula (University of Vienna) – Walls of Facticity: Dilthey on Volitions and Anthropological Universalisms

15:00-15:30 – Break

15:30-16:30 – Christopher Myers (Fordham University) – Dilthey’s Hermeneutics of the Living and the Dead: Rereading Dilthey on “Historical Consciousness” and “Religious Experience”

16:30-17:30 – Aaron Turner (Royal Holloway, University of London) – The Last Consequences of Historical Consciousness

17:30-18:00 – Break

18:00-19:00 – Robert C. Scharff (University of New Hampshire) – Interpreting Life-Experience in Its Own Terms: Dilthey to Heidegger

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