Before Cultural History. Functions and Dynamics of Russian Historiography in an European Context (1750-1830)

这里提出的项目的目的是分析18世纪末和19世纪初俄罗斯《satelzeit》（R. Koselleck）的史学文本，这些文本是翻译、改编或原创的。该项目要求对文化进行概念化：人类文化、欧洲文化、俄罗斯文化，但不要求对民族、人民或国家进行概念化。首先应该问的是，在俄罗斯帝国建立专业的史学之前，是否存在文化史。其次，它将分析哪些概念和思想是欧洲史学传统的改编或最初在俄罗斯帝国精英的话语中发展起来的。第三个问题是在从启蒙到浪漫主义的过渡中这些文本的目的是什么。在图书市场受到控制和审查的条件下，受教育公众的发展和史学的出现是文本语料库分析需要考虑的最重要的先决条件。这里的方法论问题是解构文本中的叙事策略，分析这些文本中的（历史）术语和语义场，最后重建语境和知识/政治网络。

The objective of the proposed project here is the analysis of historiographical texts of the Sattelzeit (R. Koselleck) of the late 18th and early 19th century in Russia, created as translations, adaptations or originally. The project asks formost for the conceptualizations of culture: culture of mankind, culture of Europe, culture of the Russians, but not for conceptualizations of ethnos, people or nation. It should be asked then firstly whether there was a cultural history before the establishment of a professionalized historiography for the case of the Russian Empire. It will analyzed, secondly, which concepts and ideas from which Europe's historiographic traditions were adapted or were originally devoloped within the discourse of the Russian imperial elite. The third question will be that oft he purposes oft he texts in the transition from the enlightenment to romanticism. The development of an educated public and the emergence of a historiography under the conditions of a controlled and censored book market are the most important precondition tobe taken into account fort he analysis of the textcorpus. Methodological issues here are the deconstruction of narrative strategies in the texts, the analysis of (historical) terms and semantic fields in these texts, and finally the reconstruction of the contexts and intellectual/political networks.