| Revista: | Historia da historiografia |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000419934 |
| ISSN: | 1983-9928 |
| Autores: | Pasamar, Gonzalo1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza. España |
| Año: | 2012 |
| Periodo: | Dic |
| Número: | 10 |
| Paginación: | 165-182 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, teórico |
| Resumen en inglés | 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? |
| Disciplinas: | Historia |
| Palabras clave: | Historiografía, Historia contemporánea, Historiadores, Paradojas, Tucídides, Cicerón, Marco Tulio |
| Texto completo: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
