Narrative: is it discription of the history or representation of self-consciousness of the historian?
Humanities knowledge transformation of related to the changes in comprehension of "Another" in European tradition is considered. Correlation between acknowledgement of the right to be "Another" and development of historical thought under European subjectivism project are traced. Some paradoxes of that type of thinking are identified that bring it to contemporary concepts of aesthetization of history and to interpretation of historical narrative as fiction.