Biografiya kak istoricheskaya problema

Abstract

Biography as a historical description is possible in different forms: as historical evidence, as a value or value judgment, as modeling history according to the principle “als ob” (“as if”). The latter type of biography can be accepted as a heuristic and hypothetical model of events in the absence of reliable evidence, when the biography is created from indirect sources. Modeling by the principle “als ob” was invented by Hans Feichinger, a little-known original follower of the philosophy of I. Kant.