HEGEL AND THE PROBLEM OF EARLY HISTORIOGRAPHY
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This article engages the problem of Hegel‘s approach to early historiography and its relationship with unhistorical practices of collective memory. The main thesis of this paper shows that the so-called original history – about which Hegel speaks in his Introductions to the Lectures in the Philosophy of World History – represents a practice of memory which becomes possible only with the emergence of political communities and which is therefore opposed to mythical and epic forms of memory in pre-political communities. The fi rst chapter of the paper brings reading of Hegel’s account about original history as a political practice of memory which is opposed to mythological representation. The second chapter interprets places from Herodotus Histories in order to support the claim about the political nature of historiography. In the end, the paper concludes that ambiguous relation between historical and unhistorical modes of memory is crucial for Hegel‘s understanding of historiography.
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