In this essay, I examine the key features of Reinhart Koselleck's situatedness in his place and time, insofar as they help us grasp his particular slant on historical writing, and then discuss the main thrust of his Historik, or his theory of the possibility of historical practice. Koselleck argued that historical theory must be a theory about time, or, more accurately, times. In his decisive terminology, the historical “present” consisted in the Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen (contemporaneity of the noncontemporaneous), or the historical moment was analogous to a geological stratification, with different Zeitschichten (sediments of time) making their presence felt in distinct configurations of pressure and pacing. Koselleck strove, within his German cultural situation, to acknowledge the Gadamerian argument for the linguistic character of historical understanding and, indeed, of the human experience it enunciates, but he also suggested that historical practice had to unearth the prelinguistic structures that also (and inescapably) constrained experience and its articulation. All in all, Koselleck provided heuristic considerations for concrete empirical practice, neither endeavoring nor achieving theoretical prescriptions whereby histories must be constructed or adjudicated.

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科塞莱克的时代

在这篇文章中，我将考察莱因哈特科瑟莱科的情景性的主要特点在他的地点和时间，只要他们帮助我们抓住他的特殊倾斜的历史写作，然后再讨论他的主旨Historik，或者他的历史的可能性理论实践。科瑟莱科认为，历史理论一定是关于时间的理论，或者更准确的说，倍。在他的决定性术语中，历史的“现在”包含在Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen（非同时代的同时代）中，或者历史时刻类似于地质分层，具有不同的Zeitschichten（时间的沉积物）在不同的压力和节奏配置中感受到它们的存在。科塞莱克在他的德国文化情境中努力承认加达默尔关于历史理解的语言特征的论点，实际上，它所阐明的人类经验，但他也建议历史实践必须挖掘前语言结构，这些结构也（并且不可避免地） ) 受限制的经验及其表达。总而言之，科塞莱克为具体的经验实践提供了启发式的考虑，既没有努力也没有实现历史必须被建构或裁决的理论处方。