Historicism: Notes on a Paradigm

The objective of this article is to make some considerations on Historicism, and the possibility of examining it as one of the paradigms for establishing a scientific history for the Twentieth Century. The first point discussed is related to the origins of the historicist paradigm during the transit...

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Autor principal: José D'Assunção Barros
Formato: artículo científico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=193323769019
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/57950
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Sumario:The objective of this article is to make some considerations on Historicism, and the possibility of examining it as one of the paradigms for establishing a scientific history for the Twentieth Century. The first point discussed is related to the origins of the historicist paradigm during the transition between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. Next, it approaches the conservative appropriation of the historicist paradigm by the new context, in which the European bourgeoisie is in power, combined with the consolidation of the modern state-nations. The specifications of this paradigm¿s characteristics are at the center of our analysis.