Editing Transhistoricity (section)

{{Short description|Transcending historical boundaries}}
'''Transhistoricity''' is the quality of holding throughout human history, not merely within the frame of reference of a particular form of [[society]] at a particular stage of historical development.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55800981|title=New dictionary of the history of ideas|date=2005|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|others=Maryanne Cline Horowitz|isbn=0-684-31377-4|location=[New York?]|pages=877, 1047, 1119, 1284|oclc=55800981}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=D’Errico|first=Lucia|title=Appendix 1: Techniques of Minoration|chapter=Appendix 1 |date=2018|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4s7jp2.30|work=Powers of Divergence|pages=136–160|series=An Experimental Approach to Music Performance|publisher=Leuven University Press|doi=10.2307/j.ctv4s7jp2.30 |jstor=j.ctv4s7jp2.30 |isbn=978-94-6270-139-7|access-date=2022-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sweeney|first=R.D.|date=October 2010|title=Arts, language and hermeneutical aesthetics: Interview with Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0191453710375592|journal=Philosophy & Social Criticism|volume=36|issue=8|pages=935–951|doi=10.1177/0191453710375592|s2cid=170605207 |issn=0191-4537|url-access=subscription}}</ref> An entity or concept that has transhistoricity is said to be '''transhistorical'''.

Certain theories of history (e.g. that of [[Historicism#Hegelian|Hegel]]), treat human history as divided into distinct [[historical period|epoch]]s with their own internal [[logic]]s—[[historical materialism]] is the most famous case of such a theory. States of affairs which hold within one epoch may be completely absent, or carry opposite implications in another, according to these theories.