Paul ricoeur 's Objectivity and Subjectivity in History 1. The incomplete objectivity in historical study. c. Temporal distance o In historicalinvestigation, historians encounterone objective difficulty, i.e. to understand their objects of inquiry in remote distance. They basically experience the "phenomenon of self- alienation, of drawing out, of distension, in a word, oforiginal otherness. Ricoeur, 1965, p. 27) e To overcome this kind of distance and otherness, historians have to project theminto"anotherpresent"to be exact past. These efforts ofprojecting into the past, which has been characterized by Riceouras "temporalimagination', require a kind of"subjectivity, which is never approached by the science of space, matter, and ljye.”(ibid,p.289 1. The incomplete objectivity in historical study: c. Temporal distance:  In historical investigation, historians encounter one objective difficulty, i.e. to understand their objects of inquiry in remote distance. They basically experience the “phenomenon of self￾alienation, of drawing out, of distension, in a word, of original ‘otherness’.” (Ricoeur, 1965, p. 27)  To overcome this kind of distance and otherness, historians have to project them into “another present” to be exact past. These efforts of projecting into the past, which has been characterized by Riceour as “temporal imagination”, require a kind of “subjectivity, which is never approached by the science of space, matter, and life.” (ibid, p. 28) Paul Ricoeur’s Objectivity and Subjectivity in History