Open AccessKontrafaktualna istorija kao deo naučne discipline
Author(s) -
Čedomir Antić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tokovi istorije
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-547X
pISSN - 0354-6497
DOI - 10.31212/tokovi.2021.1.ant.249-266
Subject(s) - historiography , phenomenon , perspective (graphical) , counterfactual thinking , history , epistemology , sociology , political science , social science , aesthetics , philosophy , art , law , visual arts
The emergence of the first alternative history of Serbia and the thematic issue of a literary journal devoted to counterfactual history drew attention to the necessity to analyze this phenomenon from a historiographical perspective. This paper outlines the historical and theoretical foundations of counterfactualism in European and American historiography and literature.