THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORICISM AND THE FORMATION OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
The article examines the emergence and evolution of historicism in its relation to the development of historical consciousness. Examines the stages of formation of historicism, since its "zero degree" in the mythological | consciousness, through traditional and modernized historicism to modern and post-modern historical consciousness. On the mythological level of consciousness is born and is still implicitly structurally interwoven with mytho logical story. However, there is a type of history, historicity. At the stage of emergence of ancient history, there are signs of rational historical consciousness, primarily related to the problem of the origin and functioning of the policy. Medieval theocentrism worldview specifies the transcendent and the transcendental dimension of history, comparing it with the divine eternity. Modernization of the entire array of traditional historicism begins at the stage of classical historicism with the elimination of a sacred mystical Foundation of history in the Renaissance and enlightenment. In the postmodern era history is understood as part of the literature, the historian acts as writer, arbitrarily organizing material sources in accordance with his plan, system images.