Original scientific paper
Ideological Function of History. Problem of Objectivity in Historiography
Tihomir Cipek
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author outlines the ideological function of history which stems from its task as a society's self-reflection, by analysing the past and enumerating the features of histiography. The text includes a short review of historiography (which is becoming aware of its limitations and the new demands for a distance in time and space from the facts it investigates) and historians' influence on the accuracy of its findings. The ideological function of history is illustrated by various thematization of the same events in history textbooks, which were in use during different political systems on the territory of the presentday Croatian state. The author thinks that today's historiography is faced with a seemingly contradictory demand: it should reach the truth in its depiction of the past, but at the same time caution against the relativity of its findings.
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Hrčak ID:
110671
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Publication date:
4.9.1995.
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