History

What is History?

A question that undoubtedly calls for a difficult and complex answer. Nonetheless, we will attempt to put its conceptual content into simple terms.

History is, in short, Man's attempt to register his evolutionary sojourn on planet Earth since his origins down to the present day, where human historicity is adhering to Universal parameters. History is brought down from generation to generation in the form of the multiple linguistic codes and symbology available to Man and is relative to his time and spatial co-ordinates and context.

The contemporary concept of History has generally distanced itself from a perspective of mere factuality, inherited from the restrictive determinism that prevailed in the Age of Lights, and has headed towards a global understanding of events, their causes and consequences in Man's successive socio - organizational forms, behavioral patterns and migratory tendencies. As the passing of Mankind on the planet is registered by its existence and achievements in their entirety, and being History a study thereof, it had to develop in the light of Transdisciplinarity. We should not forget, however, that a historian is but a mere narrator or story teller, who, because of his or her uniqueness, will always employ the filter of subjective reasoning and logic when sifting through the data in his or her possession.

The study of History, like any other field of human research, requires an inquisitive nature and it is in this spirit that, targeting an interactive space, we request all those who visit this site for their most valid and valuable contribution!


" History as a fundamental science amongst social and human sciences aims to master the past by the awareness of an age through the material presence of Man's accomplishments and understanding of its economic, social, political, cultural and other structures, all of which interrelated."

José Manuel Garcia

(transl. from the original text by Adiaspora.com)