Historiología: Esquema de una teoría de la historiología

Jörn Rüsen

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Published: Dec 1, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/001.15.1742

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Rüsen, J. (2012). Historiology: Outline of a theory of historiology. Memoria Y Civilización, 15, 415-447. https://doi.org/10.15581/001.15.1742

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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut.

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The article analyzes historical thinking and emphasizes its specific form of historical studies. It explicates historical thinking as a mental and spiritual process of making sense of time by referring to the experience of the past. This process is determined by different sense criteria, each of which is necessary and all together are sufficient for constituting historical thinking as a cognitive process with non-cognitive elements of aesthetics and rhetorics. Each criterion is reflected in respect to its manifestation in the specific academic discourse. The systematical interrelationship of these sense criteria is presented as a network of communicative practices, the different logics of which are distinguished. Finally three different levels of historical sense generation and their interrelationship are addressed. This distinction proves necessary in order to avoid the one-sidedness of a constructivist understanding of historical thinking in its relationship to the experience of the past.

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History, historical thinking, historiology, past

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Vol. 15 (2012): Studies in honor of Professor Ignacio Olábarri Gortázar, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Navarra, on the occasion of his retirement

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Articles: Studies of History and Theory of Historiography

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