title: Post-Historicism and the End of the Historicist Project: On the Issue of Overcoming Historical Relativism in Analytical Philosophy
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metadata.value: Nikonenko, Sergei V.
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metadata.value: 2024-05-30T20:01:36Z
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metadata.value: 2024-05-30T20:01:36Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Nikonenko S. V. Post-Historicism and the End of the Historicist Project: On the Issue of Overcoming Historical Relativism in Analytical Philosophy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2024, vol. 40, issue 1, pp. 68–80. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.106 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45472
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metadata.value: The article is devoted to consideration of theories of Post-Historicism in the analytical philosophy
  of history. It is emphasized that Post-Historicism initially performs a critical position
  to the linguistically oriented historical relativism. Theorists of Post-Historicism criticized
  discursive understanding of the subject of history, as well as the view of historian as author.
  They provide paradigmatic turn from the language of historians to the analysis of historical
  experience (understood as a special, ‘sublime’ experience). It is noted that in the center of the
  theories of Post-Historicism there are such categories as ‘narrative’, ‘past’, ‘memory’, ‘metaphor’,
  ‘representation’, etc. The narrativists approach involves the assumption that the historian
  does not work with events of the past, but only with the interpretations of it. Main historical
  method is the reconstruction of historical experience through productive reminiscence. There
  is a fundamentally new challenge: the creation of many local histories in the form of narratives,
  but without attempts to create ‘meta-narratives’. Retrospectivism in narrative approach
  is the desire of the historian to retell certain events of the past in the form of textual integrity.
  The integrity of the narrative as a historical text is based not according to linguistic but to the
  ‘aesthetic’ principle: it is rooted in describing some historical events in their unity as an experience
  of certain actors of those events, and considering historian as their interpreter. In the era
  of Post-Historicism, analytical philosophy of history seeks to design not discourse, but narrative, because the latter one initially appeals to empathize, not understand or build some linguistic
  kinship. The concept of metaphors is proposed, involving the symbolic interpretation
  of historical concepts and generalizations, according to which there is a possibility to establish
  ‘how’ was the past. From the author’s point of view, it is possible to base historical epistemology
  on the assumption of a symbolic interpretation of historical experience and narrative.
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metadata.value: This article is written in the scope of project of Russian Scientific Foundation 21-18-000174
  “Historicism as a Paradigm of Humanities”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 40; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: analytical philosophy of history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Post-Historicism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: experience
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metaphor
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Postmodernism
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Post-Historicism and the End of the Historicist Project: On the Issue of Overcoming Historical Relativism in Analytical Philosophy
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metadata.value: Article
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