Paul Yorck von Wartenburg

Hans Ludwig David Paul Graf York von Wartenburg (April 1, 1835 – September 12, 1897) was a German lawyer, writer and philosopher.

York developed a hermeneutical philosophy of history in exchange with his friend Wilhelm Dilthey. Their correspondence influenced the early Martin Heidegger's philosophy of history, especially central concepts of his early thought and Being and Time such as historicity, generation, and the difference between history as lived (Geschichte) and as an object of inquiry (Historie).

York was a great-grandson of the Napoleonic-era field marshal Ludwig York von Wartenburg.

Publications

• Bewusstseinstellung und Geschichte, second edition, Hamburg, 1991.
• Italienisches Tagebuch, Darmstadt 1927.
• Die Katharsis des Aristoteles und der Oedipus Collones des Sophokles, Berlin, 1866
• Briefwechsel zwischen Wilhelm Dilthey und dem Grafen Paul York von Wartenburg 1877 - 1897, Reprint Hildesheim 1995.

Further reading

• Jerzy Krakowski (Hrsg.): Dilthey und York : Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften im Zeichen von Geschichtlichkeit und Historismus, Wrocław, 1996.
• Karlfried Gründer: Zur Philosophie des Grafen Paul York von Wartenburg, Göttingen, 1970.