The Meaning of History in Culture (Activity Approach)

Reproduction of history in the parameters of culture is a basic condition for the subject’s self-identification of the specifics of his own being. History in the parameters of culture is not so much a reflection of the events of social evolution as a complex of actualisation of institutions of existence defined as existentially significant. The socio-cultural format of human existence funds history as a universal that ensures the integrity of his existence. Being a fundamental parameter of existence, history is realised as a phenomenon, the specificity of which lies in its attribution to the processes of reproduction of human-dimensional parameters of existence. The meaning of history as an existential universal lies in the connection of the spaces of culture, activity and existence, the synthesis of which constitutes the space of the subject’s life world. The historical form of reflection of existence is a procedure for substantiating its meanings (social, spiritual, logical, moral, aesthetic), demanded by the imperatives of culture. The format of history is immanent to consciousness, the structures of which are initially intended to produce the meaning of being.