Historicism
Historisme
Résumé
Historicism is not only a much-debated subject in the field of historical sciences, but also an approach that has profoundly changed the field of knowledge since the end of the 18th century, provoking a real “historical turn” in most disciplines, which were led to redefining their foundations and aims. A fundamentally polemical concept initially used to attack the adversary, historicism established itself through heated debates and intense intellectual battles (Methodenstreit, Lamprechtstreit, Werturteilstreit, etc.). From the German Historismus to the Hegelian-Marxist historicism criticized by Popper, via the Italian storicismo assoluto, historicism in the field of architecture and, more recently, New Historicism, it is therefore not possible to reduce its various meanings, as Popper or some of his critics have done, to a deterministic version of Hegelianism nor mere positivism. It is only when historicism is put into perspective along with the sharp reactions it provoked in a complex and polemical history that the concept makes sense.
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