CZTERY TEZY O HISTORII HISTORIOGRAFII

Abstrakt

In my paper I try to formulate four crucial points with regard to the history of historiography as a specifi c subdiscipline of historical studies. (1) Th e distinctive character of the history of historiography is not founded on the subject that it analyses. (2) Th is distinctive character is mainly founded on the variety and number of theoretical approaches to the writing of history, i.e., its tradition so far. (3) Th e historical development of the history of historiography does not follow a successive transition from one paradigm to another but is stratifi ed instead. (4) A basic model to understand that development is provided by Nietzsche’s distinction between the monumental, antiquarian and critical forms of history. Each point is shortly described and substantiated