Responsibility and Irresponsibility of Historical Studies

A Critical Consideration of the Ethic Dimension of the Historian’s Work

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  • Jörn Rüsen Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen

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https://doi.org/10.69791/rahc.285

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Historiography, historians, responsibility, ethics, values, science

Abstract

Jörn Rüsen approaches the responsibility/irresponsibility dichotomy in this article as a constitutive element of historian’s work. From a triple-levelled perspective of responsibility item (reception, representation and projection of the past), proposes to historians an anthropologic- hermeneutical formulation in methodological terms in order to overcome the intersubjectivity frame established between past and present, with historians and its scientifically and citizen oriented features in the middle.

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Published

2007-03-26

How to Cite

Rüsen, Jörn. 2007. “Responsibility and Irresponsibility of Historical Studies: A Critical Consideration of the Ethic Dimension of the Historian’s Work”. Alcores: Revista De Historia Contemporánea, no. 1 (March):29-45. https://doi.org/10.69791/rahc.285.

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