Limits of the Cultural Imputation

Abstract

In the book Historia—Kultura—Metafora Wojciech Wrzosek formulates the thesis that situation of historians investigating the distant past is similar to situation of ethnologists or ethnographers. Historians (like ethnologists or ethnographers)
also ascribe the logic, concepts of time and space etc. from their own culture, into the culture they study. When their research is done not only within the frames of their own culture, but also about their own culture, the cultural imputation—Wrzosek believes—seems to not occur. In this paper I try to radicalize the question of cultural imputation. I try to argue—in reference to Kmita’s social-regulation conception of culture, Nietzsche’s“mobile army of metaphors” conception, and non-dualizing philosophy of Josef Mitterer—that cultural imputation occurs everytime, when the humanistic research is being done.