Concept
Historicity (philosophy)
Overview
Historicity in philosophy is the idea or fact that something has a historical origin and developed through history: concepts, practices, values. This is opposed to the belief that the same thing, in particular normative institutions or correlated ideologies, is natural or essential and thus exists universally.
Historicity relates to the underlying concept of history, or the intersection of teleology (the concept and study of progress and purpose), temporality (the concept of time), and historiography (semiotics and history of history). Historical "a priori" (historicity of a historical process) is a varying conceptualizations of historicity, emphasizing the linear progress or the repetition or modulation of past events.
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For all such historical philosophy, whatever airs it may give itself, regards _time_ just as if Kant had never lived, as a quality of the thing-in-itself, and thus stops at that which Kant calls the phenomenon in opposition to the thing-in-itself; which Plato calls the becoming and never being, in opposition to the being and never becoming; and which, finally, is called in the Indian philosophy the web of Mâya.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
States what Historicity is.
It is the question as to how it happens that Philosophy appears to be a development in time and has a history. The answer to this question encroaches on the metaphysics of Time, and it would be a digression from our object to give here more than the elements on which the answer rests.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Historicity; the term itself is not named.
The requirement of impartiality addressed to the history of philosophy (and also, we may add, to the history of religion, first in general, and secondly, to church history) generally implies an even more decided bar against presupposition of any objective aim. As the State was already called the point to which in political history criticism had to refer all events, so here the “_Truth_” must be the object to which…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
States what Historicity is.
Related ideas
- The End of History and the Last Man
- Alfred Schütz
- History
- Francis Fukuyama
- Historiography
- Intentionality
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Jean Baudrillard
- Postmodernism
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Semiotics
- Tradition
- Giorgio Agamben
- Alan Sokal
- Martin Heidegger
- Normativity
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Being and Time
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
- Teleology
- Edmund Husserl
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Continental philosophy.