Wilhelm Dilthey’s Rethinking of Hegelianism

by Iryna Liashenko^1
1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/30/10
Received: 4 December 2022 / Accepted: 6 January 2023 / Published: 5 February 2023

This article presents the main results of the rethinking of Hegel’s philosophy and Hegelianism, which Wilhelm Dilthey carried out in The History of Hegel’s Youth. This study is based on the author’s translation from the German of Wilhelm Dilthey’s work Die Jugendgeschichte Hegels. Hegel’s philosophy became one of the foundations of the picture of the natural world, the world of man, culture, and history, which even now functions as a paradigm of world philosophy and has a significant influence on modern intellectual culture and our image of the world. The article includes an analysis of the methodology developed by Wilhelm Dilthey for understanding Hegel’s philosophy, the central element of which is a personal approach. It reveals the intellectual background of Wilhelm Dilthey’s rethinking of Hegel’s philosophy and analyses the influence of Dilthey’s interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy on the transformation of the picture of the world of European culture, which is related to Hegel’s philosophy. The author proves that the cosmological model of Hegel’s philosophy is based on the personal experiences of the philosopher in his youth, which allows us to interpret Hegel’s philosophy as mystical, irrational, and pantheistic.

Keywords: Wilhelm Dilthey, history of philosophy, Hegelianism, The History of Hegel’s Youth, hermeneutics, philosophy of life

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Liashenko, Iryna (2023) Wilhelm Dilthey’s Rethinking of Hegelianism. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 30, 105-115. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/30/10