Abstract

BLANCO RIVERO, José Javier. Profiling an alternative. From complex systems to the aporia of the theory of historical times of Reinhart Koselleck. Prismas [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.14-32. ISSN 1852-0499.

The theory of historical times of Reinhart Koselleck faces a fundamental aporia: the paradox that concepts are the condition of the possibility of historical experience and at the same time the form of that experience. These Kantian transcendental foundations have percolated contemporary historiography through the category of “experience of time”. Complex systems paradigm, in the synthesis achieved by Niklas Luhmann, might offer some tools to recast the theory of historical times departing from concepts such as “self-reference”, “complexity” and “second-order-observation”. It will be suggested that the distinction variance/invariance might replace the anthropocentric category of “experience of time” in recasting Koselleck’s theory of history.

Keywords : Experience of Time; Temporality; Second Order Observation; Complex Systems; Historiography.

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