Once more about «new» synthesis in history

The author of the article makes a new postmodernistdirection in historiography or a "new paradigm", called gender history, the object of her research. This direction focuses on the"subconscious", which having subordinated the conscious mind defines the whole march of history turning it into a process the ultimate aimof which is pleasure. The main agent of history in the "new paradigm" is proclaimed to be a leader who is also subordinated to the total "subconscious"or to the so-called "gender code" which includes the basic elements: "orgiastic promiscuity" and "homosexual practices". Hence,the whole historical process is defined as "the changing algorithm of the sexual behavior of the leader". Representatives of the new directionclaim to have made a revolution in historiography and see the novelty of their concepts in creating a poly-disciplinary synthesis in historicalscience. The credibility of the results obtained by the creators of the "new paradigm" is checked by verification, which is the main principleof investigation in logical positivism of O. Kont. As the main components of the poly-disciplinary synthesis they choose the individual andcollective subconscious, psychology and historical anthropology. Sociology is also present in this synthesis as the principle of verificationwhich admits "suppression", "displacement", "rectifying", "hypothesis" and other investigation procedures worked out by the psychoanalyticaltradition. Thus, the inventors of the new investigation strategy introduce scientifically doubtful new tools motivating their choice by solvingthe problems of "historical synthesis" and ignoring the contents, logics and laws of the development of humanity. The result of this kindof "synthesis" has become a re-actualization of a methodology which was long ago rejected by scientific community because of its groundlessnessand turning history into the play of blind, unconscious, dark forces. The author of the article analyses all the components of the polydisciplinarysynthesis invented by the representatives of gender history, discloses the true essence of the principle of verification chosen bythem and comes to the conclusion that the "new paradigm" in historical science is pointless, absurd and dangerous; it has nothing in commoneither with historical truth or historical practice.

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