"Bernard Groethuysen's Way of Coping With the "Problem of Historicism

Bibliographic Data

ID4495762
AuthorsDmitri Ginev (University of Konstanz and University of Sofia, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume56
Issue2
Pages216-240
Publication date2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hith.12015
OpenAlexW2621618517
LanguageEN
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This article argues that Groethuysen's creation of a new historiographical genre-the anonymous history of the formation of worldviews-was a response to the "problem of historicism" conceived of as a task of working out a concept of historicity beyond the relativism-objectivism dilemma. In scrutinizing Groethuysen's implementation of phenomenology to study how basic historical phenomena have been experienced, the article draws a parallel with Heidegger's response to historical relativism. In the main argument, Groethuysen's combination of a new approach to the history of ideas and a historicized philosophical anthropology reveals the possibility of avoiding the depressing dilemma between metahistorical objectivism and historicist relativism by means of a double hermeneutics. In this regard, special attention is paid to Groethuysen's phenomenological conception of narrative time

Archaeology · Dilemma · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Historicism · Historicity (philosophy) · Historiography · Linguistics · Narrative · Objectivism · Objectivity (philosophy) · Perspectivism · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Philosophical anthropology · Relativism · Sociology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Law · Philosophical and Historical Studies · Philosophy

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