title: Power of Language and Language of Power as Postmodernist Context of Historical Research
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metadata.value: Egorov, Alexander K.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kamenev, Evgenii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:29:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:29:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Egorov A. K., Kamenev E. V. Power of Language and Language of Power as Postmodernist Context of Historical Research. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 506–521.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.212
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10291
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article deals with the theory and practice of postmodernist approach to historical research. It
  is shown that historical interpretation cannot be limited to the literal understanding of a historical
  source, since it also contains connotative meanings, in addition to denotative ones. In order
  to understand the denotative meaning of the text, it is sufficient to know the language of the text,
  but to reveal connotative meanings it is necessary to resort research procedures that positivist
  methodology is lacking. Postmodernism provides the historian with a tool for working with the
  text within the framework of the language of culture. This tool is the deconstruction of the text.
  In addition, postmodernism considers the social reality of the past as a reality that is devoid of a
  single center and is permeated with relations of power. The relations of power both constitute the
  essence of social reality, and affect the formation of the subject living in this reality. In this sense
  power goes beyond the state apparatus. It is found in the most unexpected places, for example,
  in the everyday life of people. Besides, the power does not suppress an individual, but gives him
  or her a certain freedom of action, without which power relations are impossible. Social reality
  is the arena of the struggle between multiple tactics of action and counteraction. The article also
  examines a number of historical studies whose theoretical-methodological apparatus takes into
  account the ideas of postmodernism. It is shown that postmodern approach has a great cognitive
  value when applied to historical material.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical study
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postmodernism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subject
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metadata.value: text
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: power
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Power of Language and Language of Power as Postmodernist Context of Historical Research
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metadata.value: Article
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