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Abstract Before becoming conscious of himself as an historical agent, man makes history and lives in it. But historical consciousness, the discoverer of history as an essential dimension of human reality, does not reveal per se the truth about the nature of history. In the tradition of classic historicism from Vico to Hegel, each profound interpretation whose purpose is to express the specificity of history is characterized by mystification. Thus, it appears as if insights were intimately connected with mystification. Positivistic and evolutionistic trends in the late nineteenth century eliminated Hegelian speculation from history, but at the same time they impoverished the concept of history, as well as loading it with new and trivial mystifications.
Kenneth S. Kosik (Tue,) studied this question.