Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jun 2015)

Narrare la storia: ripensare la lezione di Jerzy Topolski

  • Patrizia Fazzi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 2
pp. 1 – 14

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The article analyzes the principles of methodology proposed by Polish historian Jerzy Topolsky in relationship to the evolution of contemporary historiographical thought. The author provides a thorough analysis of the historical narrative, its rhetorical structures, the use of sources and ideological influences, values and cultural changes, involved in the research and in the writing of the text. The result is a History as a science not always exact, but close to the truth, and it outlines the historian’s figure who searches the “contact” with the past reality, in whose physiognomy enter the scientific rigor, the search of the method, technical skills, but also the imagination and the passion for knowledge.

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