history

Geschichte

History—in opposition to historiology [im Gegensatz zur Historie]—is in no way an inquiring [Erkunden], but rather the mode and manner in which something is [die Art und Weise, wie etwas ist]. History is the actuality of what occurs [Geschichte ist die Wirklichkeit des Geschehens], and is thus the object of historiology [Gegenstand der Historie]. The historian always already presupposes what history is. Always having in advance a determinate guiding representation [Leitvorstellung] concerning the essence of its domain is what characterizes, as we have seen, every science. [GA46:262; tr. Haase & Sinclair]