Starting from theoretical and methodological presuppositions
on the craft of historians, this paper analyses
fundamental contemporary challenges in the scientific
methodology of history as a science. Placing the
post-Socialist historiography in Serbia in the context of
present time, the paper especially focuses on revisionist
tendencies as constituents of forming a historiography
freed of prescriptive norms and principles of scientific
methodology, as well as the precisely determined facts.
Influenced not only by global but also by very specific
domestic particularities of ideological patterns in the
past three decades, the historical revisionism has produced
a school of thought that places in the foreground
different ideological forms of ethnic nationalism as the
dominant social matrix in our contemporariness, instead
the epistemological and heuristic-interpretative goals
and tasks of the science of history
