title: Ontology of Historicism: The Actor-Network Theory and the Elimination of the Subject
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metadata.value: Dyakov, Alexandr V.
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metadata.value: 2024-12-03T19:51:33Z
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metadata.value: 2024-12-03T19:51:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Dyakov A. V. Ontology of Historicism: The Actor-Network Theory and the Elimination of the Subject. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2024, vol. 40, issue 2, pp. 221–230. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.204 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48103
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metadata.value: The article refers to the ontological foundations of the actor-network theory, considered from
  the perspective of historicism at the present stage of its development. The author offers an original
  version of the origin of the actor-network theory, placing it in the context of the process of
  overcoming classical historicism, historical relativism inherent in Postmodernism and searching
  for a new perspective on the historical process. The article puts forward and argues the thesis
  that the theoretical demarche under consideration, genetically related to the Structuralism of
  previous decades, has the potential to bring the problems common with Structuralism to the
  ontological level. The actor does not have some pre-existence, but is wholly constituted in the
  event. It does not exist on its own, but along with other actors whose activity creates the space in
  which they themselves are constituted. The essence of an actor entirely coincides with its existence
  in the space of events. The author concludes that the actor-network theory, not striving for
  the revival of trans-historical universals like the subject of history, also refuses to historicize the
  entities with which it has to deal. The actor has no personal history and is himself fundamentally
  unhistorical, but exists only within the framework of the ‘stories’ that happen to him. Such a
  theoretical demarche partially revives the subject of history, and in the ultimate perspective, the
  forms of thought characteristic of classical historicism. Thus, a specific structure is constituted
  in the space of the humanities, using the forms of classical historicism with their inherent figures
  and adapting them to a new context that meets the modern scientific situation.
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metadata.value: The article was prepared with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation
  no. 21-18-00174 “Historicism as a paradigm of the 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 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historicism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humanities
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ontology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: actor-network theory
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Structuralism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical relativism
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ontology of Historicism: The Actor-Network Theory and the Elimination of the Subject
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metadata.value: Article
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