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Lucia Sava
The historiography of the problem (theoretical approach of daily
life). The studies concerning the aspects of the daily life are in very close
connection with those addressing the peculiarity of the mentality. Therefore,
in our study we will make several references to this subject, resulting attitudes
usually progress daily lives of individuals in a certain society of a certain
historical period.
This new and exciting field of history, occurred, in the early twentiethcentury,
historiography in a stream with a strong impact on contemporary
universal historiography (La nouvelle histoire) – which inaugurated a new global
perspective on the past, showing how, or rather methods, manners of past
societies in which people see, perceive and imagine the world around them,
as they see themselves and each other, and value the systems according to
their shape attitudes, behaviors, reactions toward each other, as challenges to
the natural social or political environment.
The new historiography current, oriented on the research of the mentality
and the imagination of a various historical periods in different areas of the
civilization, revalorificated and shared in this context the history of daily life,
trying to be a multidisciplinary approach in the mind; and the researchers
concerned with these problems, use their efforts, procurement of related
human social sciences, such as: social psychology, human geography, demography,
history, sociolinguistics, semiotics, etc. Meanwhile, in the center of
historical inquiry is not situated the abstract and universal human being, but
the contrete historical human being, even more the human groups, collectivities,
with their peculiarities.
The historical roots of such an approach, innovative and exciting on the
one hand, complex and difficult on the other one, must be searched deeply in
the history, yet in its nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Some interpretations of this kind could be even earlier. Concerning to the
concept of history seen as an indication modern concept, Reinhart Koselleck
notes that since 1765, in Gottingen, Christian Kestner raises the question:
„If the utility of new history extends to individuals”. Of course, the author
mentions, „the historiography we must portray a human being in his integrity,
not only in rare and special instances, by dominating other people or
dominating and conquering peoples of other countries”.
In the late nineteenth century, some German historians have shown neoranke
unhappy history. Among the most active critics was Karl Lamprecht,
who denounced German official historiography to focus on political history
and historical figures. He called for a „collective history”, which should take