الأسس الفلسفية لأرخنة النصّ رؤية نقدية في المقولة

Abstract

This study aims at explicating the concept of Historicism (or Text Historicism) in the textual structure, through the deconstruction of the structural elements of the textual statement, and stating that it is a strategy dependant on textual pragmatism on one hand, and conceptual pragmatism on the other. The textual pragmatism manifests itself in stating extra-textual elements on which depend the truths of the text, which in turn multiplies as much as these elements vary and contrast. These elements in turn are ultimately traced back to the authority of the reality constructed in the substructures of the text, or rather: the elementary contexts of construction which produce the textual meaning, which turns into an ultra-construct that becomes intertwined with the outside facts, forming a new reality within a textual dialectic in a constant struggle and disparity.

By way of investigative analysis this study endeavors to go beyond the traditional method of viewing statements, and to adopt an analytic critical method through unveiling the philosophical basis on which the statement depends, specifically the Marxist views regarding the substructure and ultra-structure and the existential and conceptual dialectic resulting from interaction between them, and then revealing the impact of all the philosophical schools on forming the structural ideologies of historicism.

The study presents a critique for this ideology through assessing its philosophical and epistemological structural bases, depending on a critical methodology instead of merely an ideological pragmatic methodology. The study also tries to reveal the pragmatic and theological (extra-textual) elements which govern the movement of this ideology in the mind of its advocates and defendants, and exposing, considering its inclusiveness, the text, textual and conceptual corruptions.