COMPREHENSION OF THE PAST IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL CULTURE

The article questions the thesis about overcoming the postmodern paradigm. It is stated that the ideas andresearch approaches proposed by the postmodern classics will remain as an element of the theoretical and methodo-logical base of humanities and will coexist with other conceptions. This, in turn, actualizes such issues as the structureof the object of a historical study, the scientific status of historical writing, and the approbation of post-structuralistmethods of text analysis in historical research. It is shown that within the postmodern paradigm, the meaningfulnessand structuredness of a historical event is understood as the impact of linguistic structures on the chaotic flow of infor-mation. The practice of historical writing is deprived of scientific status and is shifting towards literature, because inhistorical proof the main role is given not so much to logical devices as to linguistic and literary means, which createthe illusion of the described events corresponding to historical reality. Therefore, it is logical to use research techniquesand methods of post-structuralist literary criticism in historiography. However, textual analysis is supposed to examinethe ways of meaning formation as such and all the potential exits from the text to the intertext, while in historiographythe demonstration of the openness of the text does not make sense in itself. It is necessary to avoid this multiplicity, which undoubtedly has literary, but not historiographical meaning. All this, in turn, poses the task of finding a specific set of cultural codes within which the secondary meanings of a historical work were formed during a specific historical period.

postmodern, post-structuralism, historical science, historiography, source studies, text analysis