Осуществляется выявление философских оснований, которые обусловливают исторические исследования индивидуальности. Даются характеристика и сравнительный анализ подобных оснований, существующих в классической и неклассической философских парадигмах. Выявляется генетическая взаимосвязь между отказом от «структурной» истории индивидуальности и отказом от объективного познания исторического прошлого, характерного для неклассической парадигмы философствования. In the article is considered the philosophical foundations that determine historical research of individuality, provided characteristics and comparative analysis of such grounds existing in classical and non-classical philosophical paradigm. In the following are detected genetic relationship between the rejection of “structural” history of individuality and the rejection of objective knowledge of the historical past characteristic of non-classical paradigm of philosophizing.

This paper considers the interpretation of historicism and historical method that was given by a philosopher of science, Helmut Seifert. For this philosopher, the subject of study of historical science is comprehensive, and does not refer only to political history events, or the works of great men, but it refers to state institutions, churches, legal and economic systems, different languages that have become historical, all types of records and testimonies. The task of a historian (whom he compares with a criminologist), is to successfully discover the facts of the past, even when historical sources do not present them directly