Wilhelm Windelband introduced the nomothetic and idiographic distinction after the Baden School of neo-Kantians argued against this man's idea that psychology is a descriptive discipline that understands "meaning-structures of lived experience."
This philosopher juxtaposed the "objective" poetic imagination of Shakespeare with the inward-turned subjective poetic soul of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in an essay praising Goethe for successfully mixing the two. He argued that poetic criticism had undergone "three epochs" in his book Poetry and Experience. Wilhelm Windelband introduced the nomothetic and idiographic distinction after the Baden School of neo-Kantians argued against this man's idea that psychology is a descriptive discipline that understands "meaning-structures of lived experience." As part of a "Critique of Historical Reason", this man contrasted verstehen, or understanding, with erklaren, or explaining, in his book Introduction to the Human Sciences. Friedrich Schleiermacher's art of interpreting texts was adopted by, for 10 points, what 19th-century German philosopher who used hermeneutics on the sciences?
This philosopher juxtaposed the "objective" poetic imagination of Shakespeare with the inward-turned subjective poetic soul of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in an essay praising Goethe for successfully mixing the two.
Wilhelm Dilthey