Tarih Disiplinine Postmodernist Yaklaşım

Year 2007, Issue: 14, 176 - 188, 01.12.2007

Kaya Yılmaz

Abstract

Postmodernist tarih yaklaşımı, tarihçiler ve tarih eğitimcileri arasında en az
bilinen tarih yazım türlerinden birisidir. Tarihçilerin ve tarih eğitimcilerinin historiografyadaki
postmodernist akımını daha iyi anlamalarını amaçlayan bu makale, tarih
disiplininin temel özelliklerini ve tarihsel gelişimini kısaca özetleyerek, postmodernist
historiografyanın konseptüel temellerini, metodlarını, başlıca kavramlarını, argümanlarını
ve ideolojik özelliklerini ana hatlarıyla açıklamaktadır. Değişik tarih
ekollerinin temsilcileri tarafından postmodernist yaklaşıma karşı ileri sürülen temel
eleştiriler ve argümanlar da ayrıntılarıyla sunulmaktadır.

Keywords

Historiografya, Tarih Felsefesi, Tarih Eğitimi, Postmodernizm

Postmodernist Approach to the Discipline of History

Abstract

The postmodernist approach to history is one of the least known modes of historical writing among historians and history educators. Aiming to enhance historians’ and history educators’ understanding of the postmodern challenge to the discipline of history, this article first presents an overview of the basic features of history and its historical trajectory as a discipline. It then explains postmodernist historiography’s conceptual underpinnings, methods, principal concepts, and ideological positions. It also maps out the key debates, criticisms, and arguments that historians of different historical orientations engaged in

Keywords

Historiography, Philosophy of History, History Education, Postmodernism

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