Modern battles for the interpretation of history or for its abolition (Fr. Fukuyama) are based in the very type of the New European consciousness. This type of consciousness builds history based on the original, «generic» conflict, the paradoxical nature of this type of consciousness, combining historicism and ahistorism. The article examines not only several examples of the simultaneous coexistence of historicism and historicism in modern times, but also examines two examples from the history of New European thought that help to understand all the intricacies of the «novel» of historicism and historicism in New European culture. The first plot is connected with the division of unified knowledge into humanitarian and natural science knowledge, which causes various trends regarding the understanding of historicity or ahistoricity. Exact natural science, using mathesis, causes mainly ahistorism, whereas humanitarian knowledge is the domain of historicism as such. The second plot is connected with Hegel's philosophy, in which reliance on eidetics does not result in a tilt towards ahistorism, but on the contrary, towards the totalization of historicism. This is due to the reinterpretation of the eidetic space, which in Hegel represents not the realm of metaphysical, unchanging constants, but a living dialectical space.