History's writing and the action as "open work" in the face of the "crossed perspectives"

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378640392

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Historiography, Memory, Dissensus

Abstract

The present article discusses the open character that Ricœur, in his book Memory, History, Forgetting (2001), keeps to the question of the validity of history as scientific knowledge. The fact that Ricœur does not aim for a consensus that validates historiography, in the epistemological sense, may discourage a historian reader. However, the dissensus that is reflected in the lack of a paradigmatic method, univocal meaning and a fundamental category of historiographical inquiry, in Ricœur, does not condemn historiography to impossibility. Instead, the present text aims to justify the “open” character of historiography, exposed by Ricœur in the work cited here, presenting the need of “crossed perspectives” for the relationship of historiography with the public debate. This discussion leads to the ethical and political implications of historiographic discourse.

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Author Biographies

Sanqueilo de Lima Santos, State University of Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, BA

Professor of Philosophy at State University of Santa Cruz

Mariana Marcelino Alvares, State University of Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, BA

Undergraduate student of Philosophy at State University of Santa Cruz

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Published

2019-12-18

How to Cite

Santos, S. de L., & Alvares, M. M. (2019). History’s writing and the action as "open work" in the face of the "crossed perspectives". Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(3), 169–189. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378640392