HERMENEUTICS AS THE MODEL FOR THEORY OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE

Abstract

The main theme of this essay is the question of possible conceptual and theoreticalformulation of historical experience. This is to be analyzed on example of foundation of socialsciences. The author questions the possibilities of a different type of rationality and concepts inview of traditional logics, that considers them as necessary and general, as the possibilities of understandingthe individual and contingent. Historical perspective and change in use of conceptsare understood as crucial for contemporary philosophy.