Abstract

TORRES ROJO, Luis Arturo. Hans Blumenberg and Historiography. Francis Bacon’s Great Instauration as a Critique of the Origins of Modernity. Hist. graf [online]. 2018, n.50, pp.59-91. ISSN 1405-0927.

From a historiographic perspective drawn from the tenets with which Blumenberg defines the phenomenological consistency of the “lifeworld”, this text revises the notions of “self-affirmation”, “internalization”, and “worldliness”, conceived as enclaves of meaning of the “legitimacy of the modern age”, and signified inside the lexicon of a history of science framed by the concept of “sane curiosity” or “theoretical curiosity”. Contiguously, this circumstance -intended as the original event- makes possible to access the German philosopher’s considerations about the “technologization” process as a demonization of science, and to approach Francis Bacon’s Great Instauration as a clear example of critique to said process within its bounds. Finally, based on this, a series of elements are set out to specify the idea of historiographical reception as a plastic power of cultural creation.

Keywords : Self-affirmation; Theoretical Curiosity; Technification; Pagan Paradise; Historiography.