Droysen

Yet Droysen and authors before him never conceived of understanding solely as an act of mental imitation or solely as an act of imaginatively “transporting” oneself into the point of view of another person.

Empathy Stueber, Karsten 2008

Whereas Droysen speaks of the method of the historian as “understanding by investigation” (forschendes Verstehen), Humboldt sets off historical understanding from mere deductive rational procedures by calling it an assimilation of the investigative capability (forschende Kraft) and the object under investigation (GS Vol 4, 39).

Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007

Informed by his reading of Schleiermacher, Droysen, and Dilthey,

Hermeneutics Ramberg, Bjørn 2005

Like Ranke, Droysen is interested in the methodology of the historical sciences.

Hermeneutics Ramberg, Bjørn 2005

In different ways, Droysen, von Ranke, and Dilthey represent a return to Vico's old problem, namely how one can philosophically justify and account for the particular kind of objectivity pertaining to the study of man.

Hermeneutics Ramberg, Bjørn 2005

Vico, Herder, Ranke, Savigny, Droysen, never used the term to describe their own outlook although it was applied to them in the nineteenth century by some of their critics.

HISTORICISM GEORG G. IGGERS 1968

Policy, Droysen, the eldest of the Triumvirate, calls four centuries to witness that the Hohenzollerns alone, from their unswerving fidelity to

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

If the purpose of history is to stir a nation to action, Droysen, Sybel, and Treitschke are among the greatest masters of the craft.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Grote has faded away; and Beloch, following in the footsteps of Droysen, dwells with greater satisfaction on the diffusion of Greek influence through the conquests of Alexander.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Droysen and Schindler, the Sirdara Pass, some forty miles from Teheran on the way to Meshed, must have been the defile which Alexander's army forced.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela