Historians and Readers: On the Subject in Historical Cognition

In the theoretical research of historical discipline, if the readers who originally stay outside the discipline are brought into the conceptual system and explore the relationship between historians and readers, it may help deepen our understanding of the value and function of contemporary historica...

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Published inFu dan xue bao. She hui ke xue ban Vol. 60; no. 2; p. 18
Main Author Xin, Chen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Fudan University 01.04.2018
Subjects
Cognition
Epistemology
Historians
History
Knowledge, Theory of
Social aspects
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Summary:In the theoretical research of historical discipline, if the readers who originally stay outside the discipline are brought into the conceptual system and explore the relationship between historians and readers, it may help deepen our understanding of the value and function of contemporary historical discipline. The research of subject in historical cognition should involve historians and readers. Both of the two parties are the historical existence. There is no distinctive initiator and receiver in the relationship of historian and reader that is built on the historical works. The two kinds of reader--the ideal reader that historians have in their mind in the writing of their works and the actual reader who really read these works--play important roles in the practical process of history discipline in which historian involves and in the ways how meanings are acquired. Keywords: historian; reader; historical epistemology
ISSN:0257-0289