Transhistoricity
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.[1][2][3] An entity or concept that has transhistoricity is said to be transhistorical.
Certain theories of history (e.g. that of
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.
In sociopolitical theory
Questions of what might and might not be transhistorical phenomena are typically the concern of historians and sociologists identifying with the
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.[7]
In more recent years, research in the vicinity of evolutionary psychology has proceeded on the basis that some observed 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
See also
References
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- ^ Simonton, D. K. (1976). The Sociopolitical Context of Philosophical Beliefs: A Transhistorical Causal Analysis. Social Forces. vol. 54. pp. 513–523.
- ^ Crowther, Paul (2002) The Transhistoric Image: Philosophizing Art and Its History. Cambridge University Press.