On The Problem of Possibility of Written Story

Authors

Davit Mosinyan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v3i2.106

Keywords:

history, narrative, reconstructivism, constructivism, deconstructivism

Abstract

The problem of relationship between story and real history is one of the main problems of the theory and philosophy of history. What is the value of recorded history? Whether or not it is connected with what "actually happened"? How can one answer this question? With regard to this issue, there are three different conceptions - reconstructivism, constructivism, and deconstructivism. According to the first conception, real history is recorded in a story. According to the second conception, the historian constructs history as a text, which can basically correspond to the reality. Finally, the third conception states that it is impossible to divide a historical text from a literary text (fiction), because the only object subservient to the historian is language.

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2014-12-01

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Mosinyan, D. (2014). On The Problem of Possibility of Written Story. WISDOM, 3(2), 161–167. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v3i2.106

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): 2-2014

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