Philosophical and methodological problems of historical knowledge: metaphoric and presupposition (concept of Collingwood)

The article actualizes the philosophical and methodological program of research of presuppositional grounds of historical knowledge of R.J. Collingwood. There is clarifies the cultural and historical status of the concept of the a priori imagination, which was proposed by him to discuss as the fundamental parameter of historical knowledge, irreducible to the procedures of empirical description.