Talking History

A micro-temporary history concerning cognition, language and history,

Abstract

The article offers a systematic analysis of the relationship and interdependence of cognition, language and history from the perspective of a radical constructivism. To this end the author employs new insights from neurobiology in order to arrive at a reformulated theory of cognition in connection with 'occurrences' and consequently for an overall cognitive theory of history, in which the observer becomes - completely in corroboration with other constructivist theories - the central category. The author then proceeds to offer possibilities based on literary criticism and linguistics, in order to solve the problem of history as science.