Shilman M. Historical rhythmics: philosophical-methodological aspect

The object of study - phenomenon of rhythm in history. The aim - philosophical analysis of rhythm as means of the communication with the past, the form of ordering of historical knowledge, and the element of representation of the past in the historical texts. Methods are comparative-historical, formal-analytical and textual. Theoretical results and their novelty - the concept of the historical rhythmics generalizing the existing views on a phenomenon of a rhythm in a history and giving an opportunity to enrich the methodological equipment of concrete historical researches is proved; the rhythmic character of actualization of "the idea of the past" is shown; the character of the constitutions of a historical field consisting in submission of rhythmics of historical sources to a rhythm of the dominating trope is revealed; it is affirmed that the pre-conceptual field of the becoming of the past is an original rhythmic pulsation; the role of the concepts in an establishment of historicity of the past and its metrics is determined; it is shown that in a historiographic narration a historical field is being represented by the beat of the chosen plot; opportunities of the ascertaining descriptions which refere to transfer of rhythmics of a number of statements about the past and establishments of their quantitative balance are proved; an attempt of modeling of long time lines in the scale of the big duration which is revealing structural correlations in polyrhythmics of the changes of line of the parameters of historical process is undertaken. The practical significance of the work is the development of the operational aspect of the historical rhythmology for a substantiation or specification of expert estimations and forecasts of various socio-cultural, civilizational and political processes. The sphere of use - scientific-teaching process, philosophy of history, historical narratology.