The Path of History: Historical Narrative and Historiosophy of North Caucasus People's Cognition

Abstract

The article analyzes the complex path of the Caucasian studies, as a special educational institute in Caucasus history. The study relevance depends on the accumulation of historical knowledge about the peoples in regions and pre-revolutionary historical science. This road began within an analysis of the historical complex of narratives, through the history of historical knowledge to historiosophy. There are significant theories and hypotheses, methodics and principles, scientific approaches and paradigms, claiming a comprehensive study of highland society helping the researchers to develop their studies. The pre-revolutionary Caucasian studies are known to be difficult to study. On the one hand, this is determined by the multifaceted nature of the historical process, on the other hand, by the dialectic of the cognitive process involving a change of ideas and concepts. Each theory explains only a certain range of phenomena and processes, and not one, even one of the most perfect, never studies the entire complexity of the development of society and scientific ideas about the past.