Die Abgrenzung der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften

Subject of this paper is a demarcation of Digital Humanities as human sciences in the tradition of Wilhelm Dilthey. On this foundation the DH have to focus on the relation between life, expression, and understanding with the methodology of genuine digital hermeneutics. In a next step requirements on this methodology are verbalized, an approach for the implementing in a web based digital research environment are shown and risk as well as chances discussed. A new form of multidimensional and multimedial argumentation has to be developed, without neglecting the suggestive power of images