Simbiotička veza istoriografije i nacionalizma u postsocijalističkoj Srbiji

Abstract

Starting from theoretical and methodological presuppositions on the craft of historians, this paper analyses fundamental contemporary challenges in the scientific methodology of history as a science. Placing the post-Socialist historiography in Serbia in the context of present time, the paper especially focuses on revisionist tendencies as constituents of forming a historiography freed of prescriptive norms and principles of scientific methodology, as well as the precisely determined facts. Influenced not only by global but also by very specific domestic particularities of ideological patterns in the past three decades, the historical revisionism has produced a school of thought that places in the foreground different ideological forms of ethnic nationalism as the dominant social matrix in our contemporariness, instead the epistemological and heuristic-interpretative goals and tasks of the science of history.