Transcendentalne "a priori" i problem jego uhistorycznienia
A transcendental "a priori" and the problem of its historicisation

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I raise the issue of revisiting Immanuel Kant’s transcendental consciousness from the perspective of its hermeneutic application. Referring to the issue of a priori historicisation, I address the problem of the history of understanding, which I consider the main motive of a hermeneutic thinking. Thus, I analyse the structure of historical experience, as important to Wilhelm Dilthey and George Misch as to Hans-George Gadamer. Claiming, at the same time, that the main problem connected with it concerns the application of the category of understanding and interpretation in a wide range of historical inquiries, I show the consequences of the adaptation of transcendentalism to cultural studies. Therefore, contrasting historical consciousness to both a formal axiology by Heinrich Rickert, methodology of humanistic science by Dilthey, as well as a speculative historiosophy by Hegel, I prove that a perspectivitc thinking by Friedrich Nietzsche, contaminated by the maniersm of historicism, and used later on, among others, by Martin Heidegger, Gadamer and Gianni Vattimo, in his case to present the conception of “weak onthology”, constitutes a specific type of the opening of transcendentalism to the history. Just this opening, in a long chain of posttranscendental thinking I treat as an expression of the istoricisation of Kant’s critical consciousness.

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