OBLIKOVANJE I RASTVARANJE ŽIVOTA U ELIKSIRU VREMENA (OMNIBUS – STUDIJA O MODERNOJ HISTORIJI)
DEVELOPMENT AND DISSOLUTION OF LIFE IN THE ELIXIR OF TIME (OMNIBUS – A STUDY OF MODERN HISTORY)

Summary/Abstract: The world is changing faster than social sciences, historical science included, are able to follow the chronology and nature of its changes. We are living in an era in which human inability to show the maturity and ability to take care of the survival of life of our Planet is recognisable. Technological capabilities were never so highly developed, resources have never been so carefully sorted, yet man’s will to materialize humane solutions has again become questionable at the global level. Compared with this state-of-play, it may seem to some, sometimes rightfully, that historiography is a petty science that often pays too much attention to every single irrelevant aspect of the past that has remained stored in the junkshop of mankind. The fact is that we should challenge the concepts of time as a limiting factor of existence. The prevalent view of the linearity of time often produces wrong conclusions in historiography. So what often happens is that numerous well-documented unrealised historical options are not taken seriously into consideration, even though they are a true testimony of simultaneity and intermingleness of historical trends. Only apparent forms that are subsequently registered and announced to public are usual subject of studying. Eventually, they assume the patina of something that is widely known and official. Their successful installation is a common mental obstacle to alternative interpretations, while, in some underdeveloped parts of the world, they turn into the only permitted possibility. There is one basic model of historiography: action-reactiondocumentation. We should get rid of it and discard it completely. We need to build new and more complex methods that result form invention, rather than from convention.

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