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Geisteswissenschaften

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Geisteswissenschaften

The human and social sciences as opposed to the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften). The term is a German translation of the phrase ‘moral sciences’ found in J S Mill's work A System of Logic 1843.


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Vico's countervailing emphasis on humanistic inquiry--what the German scholar Wilhelm Dilthey would later popularize as the Geisteswissenschaften or "spiritual sciences"--has largely been responsible for an interest in Vico that during the last century has engaged some of the most influential intellectuals in Europe and America, including Benedetto Croce, Karl Lamprecht, Aby Warburg, Karl Lowith, Erich Auerbach, Isaiah Berlin, Arnaldo Momigliano, Hayden White, and John Milbank, among others.
Weimar (Germany): Verlag und Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften (Architektur der Welt, Volume 4).
 
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