Epistemology of social contradiction and social conflict: history or social epistemology?
The article brings up a question: what discipline has competence to define the epistemological status of social contradictions and conflicts? The essential features of history, taken as a space where social contradiction and conflict are developed, are considered in connection with the methods of such a relatively new branch of knowledge as social epistemology. The author comes to the conclusion that construction of social epistemology as a philosophical discipline would enable it to investigate historical consciousness and also such a by-product of historical consciousness as historical, pseudo-historical and non-historical knowledge, which is loaded with the information on social contradiction and conflict.