Abstract

TORRES, Rayiv David. The Writing in front of the Limit: Language and Narration in the Historiographical Operation of Michel de Certeau. Hist. graf [online]. 2021, n.56, pp.279-306.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi56.334.

This work aims to highlight the genealogical nature of the writing of history as a common thread of the “economics of truth” in the West. In the light of Michel de Certeau, writing translates into a field of expansion and conquest in which not only would a mirror of the epistemologies of early modernity be drawn, but it has also been the stage for representation and production of a system of truth involving an experience alterity. This is the case, from the Sixteenth Century on, of Ethnology, Mystique, Psychoanalysis, and History: the “sciences of the other”. In this order of ideas, Michel de Certeau’s work will be the primary source for the theoretical analysis (multiple and at the limits) of a script that reproduces a permanent exercise of absence and that performs a duel for that which “is gone” and that could not be present anymore.

Keywords : Historiography; Alterity; Epistemology; Representation.

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