Theoretical Explanation of Specificity: the Escaping Ideal of Social Science

Explaining the historical individual in its historicity and specificity has been the proclaimed goal of social science. The founding fathers of historical school strove hardly to explain the theoretical conditions of fulfilling this goal. However, they failed to properly preventing universalism from becoming dominant on social science. The present article seeks to show how the theorists of historical school address this issue and why they fail. In this way, two main factors which prevent an explanation from being immanent, namely the priority of presentation and mundane ontology, have been explored. In the final step by invoking to "post-continental philosophy" we try to find a new social ontology which may pave the way for theoretical explanation of historical specificity.