Historical Representation and Experience
temporal (des)continuity and the possibility of true in historical narratives
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https://doi.org/10.36661/2238-9717.2023n41.13124Keywords:
Narrativism, Past representation, TemporalityAbstract
There are two tendencies to interpret the historical experience among contemporary historians: one considers the existence of the past, the other that it – the past - is already gone, accessible only by “traces.” In that sense, an ontological hierarchy between past and present arises, being the past an inferior instance of existence. The narrativist approach support this position, while phenomenologists and hermeneutics argue the other way round. Then, questions about the continuity and discontinuity between time and narrative emerges, putting at stake the possibility of a true representation of historical past. If the past is no more, how can we write a truthful History? Or would there be a continuity between time and narrative allowing a truthful representation of the past? I argue here for a narrative-configured time of experience and for a representational type of true.
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