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{{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=DβErrico|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=136β160|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=935β951|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]]sβ[[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. == In the abstract == Transhistoricity may be seen as the necessary [[antithesis]] to the idea that meanings are bounded by their historical context. It is the temporal equivalent of the spatial concept of [[Universality (philosophy)|universality]]. == In sociopolitical theory == Questions of what might and might not be transhistorical phenomena are typically the concern of historians and sociologists identifying with the [[Historicism|historicist]] traditions of [[Hegel]]ian or [[Karl Marx|Marxian]] thought, but matter additionally in the debates around [[Thomas Kuhn|Kuhn]]'s notion of [[paradigm shift]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-10|title=Toward a critique of political economy {{!}} MR Online|url=https://mronline.org/2020/12/10/toward-a-critique-of-political-economy/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=mronline.org|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Feenberg, Andrew. (2003). Modernity theory and technology studies: Reflections on bridging the gap. Modernity and technology. 73.</ref> [[Fredric Jameson]], a [[Marxist]] literary theorist, asserted that theory must "Always historicize!", going on to observe that this order was itself a "transhistorical imperative".<ref>Jameson, Fredric (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9xE6vLE71yUC&q=%22the+political+unconscious%22+books ''The Political Unconscious'']. Cornell University Press.</ref> Others look for transhistorical continuities to inform what's basic to the human condition. For example, D. K. Simonton, finds some regularities in the types of ideas that gain ascendancy following certain types of historical events, in a data series spanning 2,500 years.<ref>Simonton, D. K. (1976). ''The Sociopolitical Context of Philosophical Beliefs: A Transhistorical Causal Analysis''. ''Social Forces''. vol. 54. pp. 513β523.</ref> In more recent years, research in the vicinity of [[evolutionary psychology]] has proceeded on the basis that some observed [[transculturalism|transcultural]] regularities in human behaviour are also transhistoric, accounted for by their being fixed in the genetic legacy common to all ''Homo sapiens''. == In aesthetics == Part of the debate over the distinction between [[high art]] and [[folk art]] (or lesser disciplines) hinges on the question of whether art can (and if so, if it should) aspire to transcend the particular frame of reference within which it was produced. This frame may be taken to be historically delimited.<ref>Crowther, Paul (2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=XpMsL8f56RMC&q=transhistorical+image+philosophizing+art ''The Transhistoric Image: Philosophizing Art and Its History'']. Cambridge University Press.</ref> == See also == * [[Critique of political economy]] * [[Whig history]] == References == {{reflist}}{{Historiography}} [[Category:Social history]] [[Category:Historiography]] [[Category:Relations between time periods]]
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