Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0060601

Zusammenfassung

Few beliefs about the nature of academic knowledge seem to be less problematic and are more deeply ingrained than the assumption that a wide gulf divides the humanities and the natural sciences. But like many of the other dichotomies that characterize modernity, the binary opposition of the "two cultures" (C.P. Snow) is younger than one tends to think, especially if considered its earliest influential articulations. It was not before the late nineteenth century that the philosopher-historian Wilhelm Dilthey famously publicized his argument in favor of a fundamental difference between t...