PARADIGMS THE HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY IN CONTEMPORARY AGE

Dumitru DODUL Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

The interpretation of history within the classical and contemporary theories serves as theoretical base to determine: the problem of the meaning of history; the models of interpretation of the historical process; the models of historical knowledge and the specific of the object of historical knowledge. The Philosophy of History, which in the Modern Age has been determined by the historicist thought, is changed in the contemporaneity into an ahistorical orientation dealing mostly with the problem of interpretation and communication, giving up the cult of reason and the idea of the historical progress, and claiming, together with hermeneutics, the idea of missing of the objectivity of the historical knowledge. The ahistorical philosophy begins with the exponents of the philosophy of life, of the philosophical hermeneutics, and ends with the postmodern philosophy. At the same time, the results of the researches made till now do not offer an adequate image on the particularities of history and philosophy of history. Thus, the scientific debates held on the highest level of the national and international forums have to conduct to elaborate, according to the challenges of the beginning of the 21st century, of the new paradigm which would determine the fundamental relation between history and man, between the development of the historical reality and the historical conscience. Keywords: history, historicism, ahistorical, historical consciousness, globalization