Posts Tagged ‘Historicism’
Before we get on to Derrida’s commentary on the Origin, lets take a look at Husserl’s text.
The opening reference to Galileo puts us within the thinking of The Crisis. The specific question of the piece, ‘the origin of geometry’ is an unexpectedly historical one’. Husserl has no interest in the ‘historical’ first geometers, even if [...]
Forty years ago there were all sorts of debates about historicism. They’ve largely disappeared, or are met with stifled yawns. But, I think, it is largely an unacknowledged problem within historiography.
Frederick Beiser (Hegel 2005, p.29-30) gives a brief schematic of historicism, which is a useful place to start, as follows:
Although the term ‘historicism’ has acquired [...]
