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The monograph by Professor Wojciech Wojosek, a contemporary Polish historian, head of the Department of History Methodology and History of Historiography at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, is a synthesis of two books published in the original language in recent years.

The author substantiates a constructivist approach to the analysis of historiography and makes one of the most convincing attempts in the world humanities to conceptualise history as a cultural practice. The author shows the limitations of the traditional approach with its interpretation of history as a science that provides objective knowledge of the past and offers instead his own concept, which considers history as a part of contemporary culture aimed at understanding the culture of the past. Tracing the changes in twentieth-century French historiography from this perspective, Vzosek outlines the general image of historiography as a cultural practice and points to its metaphorical nature and cultural engagement.