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La historiografía es, sin duda, una de las más complejas y ricas creaciones que nos legó la Antigüedad. El exuberante estallido cultural que permitió a Grecia ser cuna de las ciencias y la filosofía,

Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical method. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of Begriffsgeschichte, a methodology of historical studies that focuses on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world. The eighteen essays in this volume illustrate the four theses of Koselleck''s concept of history. First, historical process is marked by a distinctive kind of temporality different from that found in nature. This temporality is multileveled and subject to different rates of acceleration and deceleration, and functions not only as a matrix within which historical events happen but also as a causal force in the determination of social reality in its own right. Second, historical reality is social reality, an internally differentiated structure of functional relationships in which the rights and interests of one group collide with those of other groups, and lead to the kinds of conflict in which defeat is experienced as an ethical failure requiring reflection on "what went wrong" to determine the historical significance of the conflict itself. Third, the history of historiography is a history of the evolution of the language of historians. In this respect, Koselleck''s work converges with that of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, all of whom stress the status of historiography as discourse rather than as discipline, and feature the constitutive nature of historical discourse as against its claim to literal truthfulness. Finally, the fourth aspect of Koselleck''s notion of the concept of history is that a properly historicist concept of history is informed by the realization that what we call modernity is nothing more than an aspect of the discovery of history''s concept in our age. The aporias of modernismin arts and letters as well as in the human and natural sciencesare a function of the discovery of the historicity of both society and knowledge.

In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the kinds of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades. History, Theory, Text provides a user-friendly survey of crucial developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates surrounding history, philosophy, and critical theory. Beginning with the "noble dream" of "history as it really was" in the works of Leopold von Ranke, Clark goes on to review Anglo-American philosophies of history, schools of twentieth-century historiography, structuralism, the debate over narrative history, the changing fate of the history of ideas, and the impact of interpretive anthropology and literary theory on current historical scholarship. In a concluding chapter she offers some practical case studies to illustrate how attending to theoretical considerations can illuminate the study of premodernity. Written with energy and clarity, History, Theory, Text is a clarion call to historians for richer and more imaginative use of contemporary theory.

Toda persona, en lo más profundo de su cerebro, alberga muchas preguntas que también habitan en las mentes de sus congéneres. Sin duda, una de ellas es: ¿hacia dónde se dirige nuestra historia? Cierto es que hemos evolucionado, en el sentido darwiniano del termino, hacia nuevos horizontes; mas es verdad tambien que, si contemplamos los estadios de desarrollo que determinadas civilizaciones poseyeron en una epoca dada para sucumbir a continuacion, no podemos sino caer en la confusion e interrogarnos nuevamente por las causas que hacen que los tiempos se repitan y que los grandes temas, para bien y para mal, sean universales. Si hicieramos mas caso a los antiguos y vieramos en la historia lamagistra vitae, otra brisa nos saludaria, pero la aventura suele ser mas poderosa que la calma.Con el proposito de mostrar las peculiaridades que nos precedieron, este manual trata de desentrañar esa historia sin misterios que es la narracion de nuestro mundo, empujado por los estimulos del corazon human

¿Puede ser considerada la Revolución francesa como una forma de religión?, ¿son sus festejos ritos sagrados?, ¿son sus principios dogmas de fe?, ¿son sus héroes mártires? En este clásico relativamente olvidado de la historiografía francesa, Albert Mathiez trata de responder a estas y otras cuestiones, estableciendo un primer y fértil diálogo entre la historia y la sociología. Con un estilo ágil y directo, Los orígenes de los cultos revolucionarios (1904) es una obra pionera que anticipa en más de setenta años el estudio de las religiones políticas y la historia cultural de la política.

La docencia en materias de Historia del Arte en Secundaria y en Bachillerato exige a los docentes no sólo el manejo de herramientas pedagógicas innovadoras, sino también -y especialmente- una adecuada actualizacion en los objetos de estudio de los temas que conforman el curriculo formativo basico en torno a dichas materias.

Dominick LaCapra calls for a new view of intellectual historyone that will revitalize the importance of reading and interpreting significant texts. In ten essays, he reformulates the problem of the relation between the "great" texts of the Western tradition and their contexts.Seeking to refine "context" into a concept useful to historical research, LaCapra urges intellectual historians to learn from lessons and developments in contemporary literary criticism and philosophy, fields that have undertaken a radical reassessment of the reading of texts.