Prof. Irina Savelieva delivers a paper in Eberhard Karls University (Tübingen)

Prof. Irina Savelieva. IN SEARCH OF THE NEW ‘TURNS’: HISTORY AND THEORY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

October 12, 2011. (Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen)

SUMMARY

The paper analyses new tendencies in the theoretical foundations of history as science in the incoming new century – the theory of history. The object of the research is the historical knowledge concerning conceptual approaches to the past social reality and the professional concepts about the “subject and method”. This is, first of all, new theories, new methods and the means of the examination of the past phenomena. In essence, this research is about the new social theories, philosophical ideas, development of the professional language, the use of new methods of scientific analysis in the research of concrete historical phenomena but also about the creation of interdisciplinary areas, mutual adoption and interventions.

The informational foundation of the research is based on the English language history journals which are characterized by the theoretical and methodological bias, the leading specialized history journals which demonstrate the state of art in various research areas, sociological journals publishing works in historical sociology and monographs for 1995–2001.