Transcendence of Historical Experience: Limitations of Narrative Analysis and Problematization of New Ontologies
Research Article
Acknowledgments
The article was written with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project “Transcendence and Narrative in the Formation of Models of Historicism” RFBR No. 19-011-00610
How to Cite
Markov A.V. Transcendence of Historical Experience: Limitations of Narrative Analysis and Problematization of New Ontologies. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2020. Vol. 9. No. 5. P. 82-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2020.5.6 (in Russ.).
Abstract
A narrative approach to the analysis of a historical fact usually proceeds from several non-stipulated prerequisites, such as the possibility of distinguishing between syntax and semantic autonomy, as the possibility of correcting a description if it is impossible to correct the accepted definition, as establishing certain synchronizations of cognition and description processes. This approach has a number of limitations, not all of which are fully understood and comprehended in modern philosophical thinking: the fundamental dilution of various categorical understandings of historical time, which are connected only by certain figures of supposedly critical reasoning, linear and progressive models even where they will obviously work not in all cases, the presence of unprovable axiomatic positions taken from heterogeneous practices (for example, autonomy in the political sense or structuralness in the broadly understood economic sense). New ontologies try to anticipate the situation by immediately eliminating restrictions such as categorical interpretation, instrumentalized as extra-transcendental, or as attributing transcendental properties to those axioms that need to be torn away from heterogeneous practices. But new ontologies, pretending not to reduce transcendence either to a figurative instrument of interpretation, or to the moment of proof based on critically tested axioms, cannot cope with the inertia of narrative analysis, as a result of which, while rejecting instrumentalism and axiomism, new ontologies retain figures of “sufficiency” or “insufficiency” and the understanding of the transcendental as super-instrumental, capable of generating a new axiom based on the entire sum of experience. In the article, we show how the transcendentalization of historical experience is possible, in which a given retention loses its meaning and new ontologies themselves are already outside this narrative inertia by certain types of evidence that distribute axioms and theorems as moments, and not tools of a new theory.
Keywords:
transcendence, historicism, historical experience, axiomatics of action, instrumentalization of theory, ontology, philosophy in culture
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Article
Received: 28.08.2020
Accepted: 08.12.2020
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Markov, A. V. (2020). Transcendence of Historical Experience: Limitations of Narrative Analysis and Problematization of New Ontologies. Humanities of the South of Russia, 9(5), 82-92. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2020.5.6
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