Suvremena historijska znanost pred izazovom interdisciplinarnosti i transdisciplinarnosti
Contemporary historical discipline and the challenge of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity

Author(s): Zrinka Blažević
Subject(s): Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Methodology and research technology, Philosophy of History
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: historiography; interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity; methodology of history; post-poststructuralist history; theory of history;
Summary/Abstract: The first part of this text focuses on revision of epistemological postulates, theoretical conceptions and methodological procedures of historical discipline which have been generated by the linguistic and cultural turns during the last two decades. On the epistemological level, these revisionist tendencies are marked by an attempt to establish a dialectic relationship between discursive and non-discursive practices as well as to “embody” historical actors and “materialize” culture. Alongside, “experience” and “practice” have been inaugurated as dominant metatheoretical categories of the contemporary historical discipline. Second part of this text deals with the impulses that historical discipline can absorb from transdisciplinary exchange with various approaches and paradigms of humanities and social sciences (cultural theory, sociology of emotions) as well as of life-sciences (neuroscience) on the example of neurohistory and history of emotions. It is argued that, in this manner, history will be able to increase its own cognitive and interpretative potentials and become creative and imaginative research practice.

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