Историзм как метанарратив: методологические основания гуманитарных наук

In: Studia culturae, Heft 56, S. 9

Abstract

The article examines historicism as an interdisciplinary paradigm that constitutes the methodological foundations of the Humanities from the moment of their inception to the present day. The author puts forward and argues the thesis that the Humanities were constituted in the space freed up after the elimination of classical metaphysics, occupying this space along with the historical and social sciences, but taking possession of a very advantageous position within it. Historicism, according to the author, has become a means of radical repression of mechanism both from philosophy and from the space outlined by the Liberal Arts, and its assertion made possible the emergence of a discursive formation in which the Human Sciences developed as a scientific discipline with their own theoretical foundations and methodology not borrowed from the positive sciences, but having a structural commonality with these latter. In the system of the established Humanities, historicism continues to serve as a universal methodological platform, providing these scientific disciplines with scientific legitimacy and allowing them to create sustainable alliances in the space of scientific knowledge.