Memoria, experiencia e historicidad: una lectura a través de la epistemología

• Main Author: Fabián Becerra González
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Industrial de Santander 2018-07-01
• Series: Cambios y Permanencias
• Subjects: History‘s philosophy; history of the present time; historicism; historicity; memory.
• Online Access: http://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistacyp/article/view/8460/8402

Modernity, as a long-term political project, instrumentalized the historical discipline in terms of articulating the past with great stories, ephemerides and normalized ideological systems in the exercise of power. After the establishment of the main totalitarian systems of the 20th century, the advent of the world wars and the subsequent bipolarity, some historiographical methods turned in a critique of rationalism and logical positivism that led to conceive the human being as a 'subject of history', never on the margin or below it. These rethinkings propitiated the genesis of renovating study alternatives for the field: social history, microhistory, history of mentalities, oral history.In that sense, this proposal addresses the epistemological vicissitudes that history has had as a discipline from the Enlightenment to the present day. A conceptual dissertation is not intended, but a theoretical coupling to discern the relevance of notions postulated by authors such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt,Sartre, Gadamer and Heller —along with some proposals arising from Annales School—with inherent problems to our contemporaneity as memory, experience and subjectivity, without losing sight of the role of the historian as agent of action.