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2021, No. (14), Ethnoarchaeology

Anna Pałubicka
Do early traditional societies have history? Time in performative-imaginative and symbolic communication

Keywords: concept of time; early traditional societies; birth of categories of historicity

Abstract:
The article is devoted to the issue of cultural forms of experience of time leading to awareness of the existence of history. The author argues that early traditional groups could not produce an idea of the order of history according to linear time. The argument is the sociological research of S. Czarnowski, the histroriographic research of J. Topolski, once data from the history of philosophical ideas. The primitive communities updated events in a performative mode, then narratives appeared that arranged the course of events according to a specific temporal sequence. In this context, only the history of sensu largo is possible. Only pomitic thought, which assumes a distant relation of the subject to the world, instead of experiencing events according to cyclical time, offers a view of them in terms of unique facts. As a consequence of such changes in the experience of time, a history of the strict sense may arise.

About Author:
ANNA PAŁUBICKA – philosopher of culture; professor emeritus at the Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Email: annapal@amu.edu.pl. ORCID 0000-0002-4632-6634.

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