@article{Mejstrik_2006, title={Welchen Raum braucht Geschichte? Vorstellungen von Räumlichkeit in den Geschichts-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften}, volume={17}, url={https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/4076}, DOI={10.25365/oezg-2006-17-1-2}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’MinionPro’;">Spatial images and concepts as well as images and concepts of spatiality – in short: conceptions of space – are of double importance for the humanities. They are frequently used, and they have a strong impact on the content of the objects of research. There is, however, a lot of vagueness and even »confusion«, as Reinhart Koselleck put it, in these uses of conceptions of space. These ambiguities were and are often considered a problem. So far, attempts to solve this problem have been varying and combining encyclopedic, typological, and purely theoretical approaches. To avoid the flaws of these common solutions, the author suggests a conceptual tool which enables the researchers themselves to discuss conceptions of space in a scholarly/ scientifically reasonable way, i.e. in the course of their own research, and with regard to the conceptions’ potentials to rectify the very objects of research. Following a concept of Gaston Bachelard (</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’MinionPro’; font-style: italic;">The Philosophy of No</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’MinionPro’;">), this tool can be sketched as an epistemological profile of conceptions of space. </span></p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={1}, journal={Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften}, author={Mejstrik, Alexander}, year={2006}, month={Apr.}, pages={9–64} }