HISTORICAL CULTURE AS A SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON

UDC 316.74

 

Kruchek Peter Stepanovich – PhD (History), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History of Belarus and Political Science. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: kruchek@belstu.by

Sergeev Vsevolod Nikolaevich – PhD (History), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Humanitar Sciencies. University of Civil Protection of Republic of Belarus (25, Mashinostroiteley str., 220118, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: v.n.sergeev@gmail.com

 

 

 

Key words: historical culture, historical memory, memory infrastructure, historiography.

For citation: Kruchek P. S., Sergeev V. N. Historical culture as a scientific concept and social phenomenon. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2024, no. 1 (281), pp. 86–90 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-281-16.

Abstract

The modern world, despite all the technological and scientific progress, is inextricably linked with the past. We constantly look back, looking in history for something that can still serve modern society in an updated and rethought form, we use history for social construction, unification around common symbolic events of the past that form national and state identity. Under these conditions, the focus of research on the past is increasingly shifting not to the events themselves, but to their interpretations from the positions of various actors, mechanisms for the formation and dissemination of historical ideas, ways of preserving historical memory, that is, what many modern researchers unite under the concept of historical culture .The article is aimed at revealing the theoretical content of the concept of «historical culture». The term is relatively new in the lexicon of humanitarians, although the very existence of a system of ideas about the past of their neighbors, allies or enemies, translated into the collective experience of a particular people, is already present in the practices of understanding the world around the first civilizations. Accordingly, the study of the past through the prism of the concept of «historical culture» shifts from the actual historical events to their interpretation from the positions of various actors, to the mechanisms of formation and dissemination of ideas about the past, ways of preserving historical memory. On the other hand, as a research perspective, historical culture can be considered as metahistory: the study of cultural and historical practice in general. It gives us a holistic view of the study of history, clarifying the interactions between the various actors in this field and the possible differences between the national contexts of historical cultures.

 

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15.03.2024