A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historica 10. (Szeged, 2007)

BOGOLY József Ágoston: Omnis lectio est selectio. Eötvös József Charles de Montalembert-hez írt leveleinek historiográfiája (I. rész)

JÓZSEF ÁGOSTON BOGOLY OMNIS LECTIO EST SELECTIO HISTORIOGRAPHY OF JÓZSEF EÖTVÖS" CORRESPONDENCE WITH CHARLES DE MONTALAMBERT (Part one) Approached from intellectual historical point of view, and interpreted as part of cultural studies, József Eötvös' letters written to Earl Charles de Montalambert between 1853 and 1869 may be compared to the ideas characteristic of the period, could throw light upon the definitions of modernization and understood in context of recent scholarly results of the question. Author of present study accentuates text and historical contexts of József Eötvös' letters written to Earl Montalambert, needing further investigation from point of view of intellectual history. The parts are chosen considering evaluating aspects regarding historiography and hermeneutics. 'Omnis lectio est selectio'. In accordance with the ideas of 'liberty, equality, nation (nationality)' characteristic of the age, the chosen texts highlight Eötvös' endeavours for modernism, the preparation for constitutional dualism, the Act of Public Education and Eötvös' sociological ideas. In analyzing the letters, aspects of previous and present-day studies are revived in the context of updated questions, at the same time established in a more or less unified framework. In source-text analysis, my approach opens a new philological - philosophical - historiographical dimension, at the same time connected to previous scholarly aspects. The author builds on hermeneutical methods used by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Clifford Geertz, Reinhardt Koselleck and Donald R. Kelley. Which interpreting community of European tradition did József Eötvös belong to? What were the elements of his way of thinking linking him to this educational - philosophical - political interpreting community? József Eötvös' way of thinking is studied - similarly to the concept-historical researches of Koselleck - following the ideas of F. Guizot, A.F. Villemain, Ch, de Montalembert, J. Simon, Ch. G. Hello, A-E. Cherbuliez, E. Laboulaye, J.C. Bluntschli, A. de Tocqueville and J. Stuart Mill, with help of contextualist methodology.