Abstract:
Literaturgeschichte als Geisteswissenschaft [History of literature as Geisteswissenschaft] was published in 1926. The work highlights the cognitive effort of its author, the Germanist Herbert Cysarz (1896-1985), to reflect on historical knowledge and its relation to the experience of time. Cysarz coined a new concept of Geisteswissenschaft in which the dialetic between time and eternity was fundamental for the construction of a pragmatic historical knowledge. This article aims to presents Cysarz’s concept of Geisteswissenschaft and to understand how it relates to the dynamics between the experience of time and eternity. Finally, this article discusses how the dynamics between time and eternity is indispensable for the fulfillment of a historical morphology.
Keywords:
Time; Historicism; Intellectual history