The legimitization of the subjectivity of the historian in the European and american postmodern theory of historical research

Artem Koshelev

Undergraduate of Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries, historical faculty, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

UDС 930.1

DOI http://doi.org/10.17721/2524-048X.2015.02.188-199

The basic principles of the European and American theorists of the history towards the subjectivity of historians in postmodern times are analyzed in this article. The author considers the categories of the postmodern historical methodology which allow to legitimize the subjectivity of the historical texts.

Keywords

Postmodern, historical narrative, rhetoric, plot, metaphor, “metaphorical truth”.

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