[ARTIGO] Theory of history and history of historiography: Openings for “unconventional histories” (original) (raw)
Related papers
Theory of history and history of historiography: Openings for "unconventional histories"
História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography, 2019
This article aims to discuss the relationship between what we will call “unconventional histories”, the Theory of History and the History of Historiography. We will discuss the possible openings of these disciplines to the spheres that strain with their more settled protocols. Moreover, we seek to reflect on the relationship of these openings with the emergence of a temporality that has transformed the Humanities and their epistemological priorities. We will argue that the practical past, the Critical Quantitative Inquiry, the paradigm of presence, Public History and popular historiographies would be some examples of openings for “unconventional histories” since these perspectives can critically intervene in speeches and academic and historiographical paradigms.
[ARTIGO] Do Theorists of History Have a Theory of History? Reflections on a Non-Discipline
História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography, 2019
This brief article is a discussion-starter on the question of the role and use of theories and philosophies of history. In the last few decades, theories of history typically intended to transform the practice of historical studies through a straightforward application of their insights. Contrary to this, I argue that they either bring about particular historiographical innovations in terms of methodology but leave the entirety of historical studies intact or change the way we think about the entirety of historical studies merely by describing and explaining it in fresh and novel ways, without the need (and possibility) of application. In the former case, theories appear as internal to historical studies. In the latter case, they appear as theories abouthistory, and such theories are no longer limited to study history understood as historical writing. In reflecting on the historical condition of the ever-changing world, they foster a more fruitful cooperative relationship with the discipline of history. Discussing the scope and use of such theories of history is inevitable today when a younger generation sets out to theorize history against the backdrop of the experiential horizon of their own times. https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1461/785
Seminario de Nuevas Perspectivas Historiográficas - Pregrado (2017)
El Seminario de Perspectivas Historiográficas busca invitar a los estudiantes a explorar nuevas aproximaciones al estudio de la historia. Su principal finalidad es, por lo tanto, analizar el fundamento tanto metodológico como teórico de las recientes contribuciones historiográficas en el mundo occidental, así como promover un debate crítico sobre la relación entre la disciplina histórica y las demás ciencias sociales. Para lograr dicho objetivo el curso está organizado en dos módulos. El primero busca estudiar los debates que los historiadores han sostenido en los últimos años frente al objeto y finalidad de la historia como disciplina. En consecuencia, este módulo está dedicado a examinar, en primer lugar, los debates entorno a la relación de la historia con demás ciencias sociales. Se espera que los estudiantes se pregunten ¿qué puede aportarle la historia a las demás disciplinas? ¿qué pueden brindar las ciencias sociales a la historia? ¿cuál es el lugar de la teoría en la historia? ¿tienen tanto la historia como las demás ciencias sociales una postura “occidental” frente a sus objetos de estudio? Una vez discutidas dichas problemáticas, el primer módulo abordará dos de los interrogantes más recurrentes en la historiografía, a saber, ¿puede la historia ser objetiva? ¿es el objeto de la historia la búsqueda de la verdad?. Para ello se estudiarán autores que critican la búsqueda de la verdad en la historia, y otros, que destacan los obstáculos que ofrece el “excesivo” relativismo en la disciplina histórica. El segundo módulo tiene por finalidad conocer la gran variedad de aproximaciones que brinda la historia social, política y cultural moderna. En particular, se le pedirá a los estudiantes que exploren las conexiones entre la historiografía tradicional y las nuevas propuestas historiográficas exploradas en clase; esto es que estudien sus continuidades, sus posturas y sus diferencias. Para ello se invita a los estudiantes a repasar cómo emplean los autores estudiados una amplia variedad de conceptos, por ejemplo ¿qué es para los autores “ la cultura”? ¿cómo interpretan “lo político”?,” ¿qué conceptos emplean para aproximarse a su objeto de estudio?, ¿qué tanto se diferencian de los propuestos por historiadores tiempo atrás?, etc. Los textos que cubrirá este módulo se basarán, salvo contadas excepciones, en contribuciones de autores posteriores a la década de los 1990s.
In this interview, Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Eelco Runia's thinking about history. The following topics are discussed: the relations between history, psychology and fiction; the critique of representationalism in the contemporary philosophy of history; the presence of the past; the question of continuity, discontinuity and mutation in history; the importance of metonymy as the quintessential historical trope; the influence of Giambattista Vico on Runia's thinking; the intellectual affinities between Runia and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; and Runia's ongoing research project on Red Queen history.
On the Very Possibility of Historiography
The familiar challenges to historiographical knowledge turn on epistemological concerns having to do with the unobservability of historical events, or with the problem of establishing a sufficiently strong inferential connection between evidence and the historiographical claim one wishes to convert from a true belief into knowledge. This paper argues that these challenges miss a deeper problem, viz., the lack of obvious truth-makers for historiographical claims. The metaphysical challenge to historiogra-phy is that reality does not appear to cooperate in our cognitive endeavours by providing truth-makers for claims about historical entities and events. Setting out this less familiar, but more fundamental, challenge to the very possibility of historiography is the first aim of this paper. The various ways in which this challenge might be met are then set out, including ontologically inflationary appeals to abstract objects of various kinds, or to " block " theories of time. The paper closes with the articulation of an ontologically parsimonious solution to the metaphysical challenge to historiography. The cost of this approach is a revision to standard theories of truth. The central claim here is that the standard theories of truth have mistaken distinct causes of truth for truth itself. This mistake leads to distorted expectations regarding truth-makers for historio-graphical claims. The truth-makers of historiographical claims are not so much the historical events themselves (for they do not exist) but atemporal modal facts about the order of things of which those events were a part. Keywords historiography – knowledge – truth – truth-makers – real relations – time – abstract objects
Narrativa histórica como estructuración performativa
Metatheoria, 2013
Through an analysis of key insights from two central figures of philosophy of history, Louis Mink and Hayden White, this article tries to answer the following questions: firstly, why can narrative structure be thought as a cognitive instrument (Mink) for the historian?; secondly, why is narrative structure best approached as a product of a figurative operation of emplotment (White)?; and finally, why is historical narration's cognitive-imaginary double nature-the production of interpretations of past events by endowing them with the meaning of plot conventions-best comprehended as a performative structuration? This last question sums up my interest in presenting a third way of thinking about historiography's supposed hybridity elaborated from my particular reworking of Mink's and White's reflections with an important difference: I will not pursue the traditional line of thought of history's scientific-literary hybridity. Instead, I will argue that we can approach historical narratives as cognitive and imaginary linguistic performances.
História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography, 2019
The article proposes the definition of a heuristic model designed for the transversal analysis of historical thought. We consider historical thought as a set of cognitive practices and public discourses that give meaning to the relationships of human societies with historical times. The premise is that, in order to understand the complexity of the intellectual processes of signification of the historical worlds, it is necessary to combine in a single analytical field the issues concerning the experience, the representation, the conceptualization and the argumentation of history, as well as those concerning its communication and social uses. To that end, we will conceptualize five dimensions of historical thought (experiential, representational, theoretic-argumentative, conceptual and performative), revising the historiographical theories that have been elaborated about each of them, defining their specificities and their mutual relations and, finally, designing a set of questions in order to analyze them in a common framework. https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1335/779
The content of this book is based on the conference held on 13–14th November, 2014 at the University of Debrecen. It was organized by our workgroup in historiography, which operates in the Institute of History of the same university. The title of this volume is „Approaches to Historiography”. It refers to one of the most important lessons of our previous events: there are many ways and methods of dealing with historiography. Some of the contributors to this volume argue that historiography is rather close to the history of ideas or at least their writings are inspired by it or rely on conceptual history and hermeneutics (the studies of László L. Lajtai and Pál S. Varga can be mentioned here). According to some others the anthropological aspects of historiography recently came to the fore (Jo Tollebeek), and there are scholars who imply that the philosophy of history and epistemology could be integral parts of historiography (Endre Kiss, András Kiss Lajos, Vilmos Erős). Some of them maintain that one of the main tasks of historiography is to discover the antecedents of modern social and economic history (Róbert Káli), and some others are trying to analyze the different national discourses and are drawing lessons from them (Greta Miron, László Dávid Törő). There are also historians who examine interactions between politics and historical writing (Radu Mârza); and there is a comparative analysis of how national ideologies affected modern high school textbooks of history in Hungary and Slovakia (Martina Pillingova).