Methodological problems of modern historical knowledge

The article is devoted to the discussion of the methodological problems of the modern historical experience, the ratio of the content and form of historical knowledge. As well as identifying strengths and weaknesses of rhetoric as a methodological strategy ostariophysan. Analyzed the point of view of Hayden white on the introduction of the logic of praxis. Arguments the author''s position that historical representation must rely on the logic of life, live in contradictions. According to the results of the survey indicated that intuitively afraid to call historiography is not the law, and rhetoric, we need to recognize that rhetoric is largely meets the purposes of historical research, since it does not open (detected), and produced. In the historical study of the main epistemological unit is the concept of «point of view», the narrative judgment, which can be accepted or rejected, but may not be challenged, because this is a unique experience of the author. And because there are always opposing views, which excludes this.