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The content of this book is based on the conference held on 13–14th November, 2014 at the University of Debrecen. It was organized by our workgroup in historiography, which operates in the Institute of History of the same university. The title of this volume is „Approaches to Historiography”. It refers to one of the most important lessons of our previous events: there are many ways and methods of dealing with historiography. Some of the contributors to this volume argue that historiography is rather close to the history of ideas or at least their writings are inspired by it or rely on conceptual history and hermeneutics (the studies of László L. Lajtai and Pál S. Varga can be mentioned here). According to some others the anthropological aspects of historiography recently came to the fore (Jo Tollebeek), and there are scholars who imply that the philosophy of history and epistemology could be integral parts of historiography (Endre Kiss, András Kiss Lajos, Vilmos Erős). Some of them maintain that one of the main tasks of historiography is to discover the antecedents of modern social and economic history (Róbert Káli), and some others are trying to analyze the different national discourses and are drawing lessons from them (Greta Miron, László Dávid Törő). There are also historians who examine interactions between politics and historical writing (Radu Mârza); and there is a comparative analysis of how national ideologies affected modern high school textbooks of history in Hungary and Slovakia (Martina Pillingova).
This collection includes papers by young historians who, to some extent, deal in their research with the question of Slovak – Hungarian relations. However, it is obvious that this topic cannot be dealt with without exploring a broader social and political Central European context. On the one hand, the authors indisputably stem from their national historiographies and in certain sense they reflect the historiographical canons in their respective countries. On the other hand, it is visible that they aim for coming to terms with their traditional national historiographies and to understand different interpretations of the joint past, while trying to overcome mutual stereotypes that had been developed due to the political instrumentalisation of the national past.
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Jerzy Topolski was one of the most renowned Polish historians and theorists of history in the world. Together with Jerzy Kmita and Leszek Nowak, he was a co-founder of the Poznań School of Methodology, which combined nonorthodox interpretations of Marxism with elements of the analytical philosophy developed in the Warsaw-Lwów School and Karl Popper’s philosophy of science. Topolski laid the foundations for a modern methodology of history as a separate research field. Its program was inspired by historical materialism as well as by new trends in the humanities and social sciences, in particular the analytical philosophy of history and narrativism. This publication is the first English-language anthology of Jerzy Topolski’s texts. It was compiled ahead of the 23rd International Congress of Historical Sciences (Poznań, Poland 2020, postponed to 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic). The volume contributes to ongoing discussions regarding the status of historical knowledge, history’s social engagement, the integration of the humanities and natural sciences, the relationships between events, facts and historical sources, questions relating to narration and historical truth, and the revival of interest in the analytical philosophy of history. As such, the anthology engages with debates on the geography of knowledge and it demonstrates how knowledge created outside Western Europe and the United States can inform the condition and development of historical theory. This anthology outlines Topolski’s main areas of interest relating to theoretical and methodological aspects of historical knowledge. These ideas and theories include: understanding history as a social science; the notion of theoretical history; discussions of historians’ methodological consciousness; the theory of historical facts; declarative sentences as “a realistic alibi for historians;” the theory of non-source-based knowledge; issues of evaluation and assessment in the work of historians; the theory of historical narrative; historical explanation; and the paradox of historical truth. The works published here emerged during various phases of Jerzy Topolski’s intellectual career, with the earliest pieces (written together with Andrzej Malewski) produced in the early 1960s, while the most recent texts are English-language versions of parts of Topolski’s final book, “Jak się pisze i rozumie historię. Tajemnice narracji historycznej” (How to Write and Understand History: The Secrets of Historical Narrative, 1996).
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I. Cultural images : Time and space: A comparative historiography of the Hungarian and Slovakian national philosophies: A central European case2010 •
The paper analyses a well‐known phenomenon, that of the 19th century Central European so‐called “national philosophies”. However, the philosophical heritages of the Central European countries have their roles in the national identities; historians of philosophy in these countries know; our philosophies have common institutional roots with our neighbours. The paper deadlines paradigmatic problems from the Hungarian and Slovakian philosophy: the Latin language in philosophy, the different role of Kantianism and Hegelianism in the national cultures, and the problems of canonisation. Vengrų ir slovakų nacionalinių filosofijų komparatyvistinė istoriografija: Vidurio Europos atvejis Santrauka Straipsnyje tyrinėjamas gerai žinomas fenomenas, XIX a. Vidurio Europoje vadinamas „nacionalinėmis filosofijomis“. Kad ir kaip būtų, filosofiniai Vidurio Europos valstybių palikimai turi įtakos nacionaliniams tapatumams, ir tai žino šių valstybių filosofijos istorikai. Mūsų ir mūsų kaimynų filosofijo...
The aim of the paper is to analyse the development of Slovak historiography and the Slovak national story from its beginnings until 1948. The most important periods of the national story were identified on the basis of an analysis of the most important Slovak historical works of the period studied. The Slovak case is a typical example whereby a national story has been constructed despite the lack of a relevant state tradition. One of the major concerns of Slovak historiography has been to prove that the Slovaks have a national story which is distinct from those of the Czechs or the Hungarians. The seminal periods in the national story are those where the nation has been shown to be independent or autonomous. The development of views on particular nodal points open to dispute also depends on other factors such as the period, the historian’s aim, and ideological pressure. The aim by 1948 was the creation of an independent Slovak national story although its radical nationalist version was rejected after 1945.
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History as Vallis Aurea. Đorđe Stanković and the Modernization of Serbian Historiography, Tokovi istorije, 3 (2018), 109-145.This article addresses the theoretical and methodological conceptions of Đorđe Stanković in the context of the development and modernization of Serbian and Yugoslav historiography in the late 20th and early 21st century. The present study focuses on Stanković's understanding of the epistemological foundations of historical research and its social functions , his new history program and his consistent battle to deconstruct historical stereotypes and affirm the importance of rational, scholarly knowledge.
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