Introduction

1-7

The formal methodological presuppositions of a phenomenological epistemology

11-43

The material methodological presuppositions of a phenomenological epistemology in the structures of the lifeworld

45-64

The lifeworld and the system of the sciences

first steps toward a phenomenological epistemology

65-97

History as a science of interpretation

101-129

Causal explanations in history

131-157

The empirical basis and the thematic attitude of the natural sciences

161-182

The structure of theories in the natural sciences

183-254

History and the natural sciences

257-276

History and the systematic human sciences

277-375

Summary and conclusions

379-413