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Historism: Historism is an approach to understanding human history and culture that emphasizes the importance of context. It recognizes that all human phenomena are products of their time and place, and that they cannot be understood in isolation. See also History, Historiography, Culture.
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Jürgen Habermas on Historism - Dictionary of Arguments

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Historism/Dilthey/Habermas: the rise of the humanities, which had taken place since the days of Rankes and Savigny within the framework of the Historical School, has been accompanied by methodological reflections.(1)
>L. von Ranke
, >F.C. von Savigny.
Since Dilthey at the latest, these have taken on a systematic form - as historicism.
>W. Dilthey.
Historical criticism is directed equally against dialectical and evolutionist theories of history and society.
>Evolutionary theory, >Historiography, >History, >Philosophy of history.
In particular, we are concerned with discrediting the attempt to find development laws for a culture interpreted as naturalistic.
>Naturalism.
Historism has worked out the peculiarity of culture as an object area constituted by contexts of meaning, but not by laws, especially no evolutionary laws.
>Culture, >Sense, >Laws.

1.E. Rothacker, Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften, Bonn 1948.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


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