ABOUT NATURE OF SOCIAL REALITY AND EPISTEMOLOGICALSTATUS OF HISTORICAL NARRATIVES

This article is intended as a contribution to discussionof problem of place and functions of narratives. It discuss of idea of phenomenologist David Carrabout continuity between narrative and «real world». The key view of this author is that the historicalnarratives will reveal themselves to be not distortions of, denials of, or escapes from reality, but extensionsand configurations of its primary features. It means that the historians' thematization existsbecause historians live in a milieu in which a very general story already exists as a pre-thematic narrativecontext. William Dray, one of the critics of this view, says that this position is not good paradigmfor explanation of nature of historicity of human being and conditions of birth of historiography. Ithink that it necessary to subscribe to opinion of Carr about continuity between narrative and «realworld». But it is not a reason to suppose that the historical narratives are mirror of «real world». Ourthesis is that historical narratives will reveal themselves to be not reconstructions or configurations ofpast, but reconfigurations of narratives of social reality or primary narratives that constitute the «realworld».

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