TY - JOUR AU - Mejstrik, Alexander PY - 2006/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Welchen Raum braucht Geschichte? Vorstellungen von Räumlichkeit in den Geschichts-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften JA - OeZG VL - 17 IS - 1 SE - research paper DO - 10.25365/oezg-2006-17-1-2 UR - https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/4076 SP - 9–64 AB - <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> ER -