Journal: | Historia da historiografia |
Database: | CLASE |
System number: | 000419934 |
ISSN: | 1983-9928 |
Authors: | Pasamar, Gonzalo1 |
Institutions: | 1Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza. España |
Year: | 2012 |
Season: | Dic |
Number: | 10 |
Pages: | 165-182 |
Country: | Brasil |
Language: | Inglés |
Document type: | Artículo |
Approach: | Analítico, teórico |
English abstract | The present article revolves around the interest in contemporary history from ancient writers to humanist historians. Its objective, which forms part of a broader purpose devoted to elucidating the characteristics of the so-called History of the Present, is to examine the forms this interest has traditionally adopted. In this way, we put for consideration the following hypothesis: from classical historians onwards, the concern with contemporary history was always considered a hard and inevitable task to be undertaken, since it affected rulers and living people. Nevertheless, the long-standing doctrine of history as memory of events for centuries had prevented historians from facing paradoxes that result from the interest in contemporary past; in other words, how can historians confront the political uses, memories and demands of public opinion to deal with the recent past without jeopardizing historical truth? |
Disciplines: | Historia |
Keyword: | Historiografía, Historia contemporánea, Historiadores, Paradojas, Tucídides, Cicerón, Marco Tulio |
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