Narrative logic of historical writing from the point of view of the phenomenological concept of source studies

Abstract

The article attempts to examine the background of the problematization of narrative in historical knowledge. It explores the transformation of narrative in situations of postmodern and postpostmodern. The problem of narrative is analyzed in correlation with the types of rationality / models of science and given the gap between historical science and socially oriented historical writing. The potential of the source studies approach to the analysis of narrative is demonstrated. Structural method of the source studies is proposed as opposed to a narrative logic in historical wtiting.