Historiographic refocalization and change in the historicity regime. The controversy space surrounding the representation of past and contemporary historical catastrophes

FRANCISCO NAISHTAT

Controversy Spaces. A Model of Scientific and Philosophical Change

John Benjamins

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2011; p. 29 - 56

ABSTRACT Based on the concepts of the controversy spaces model devised by Oscar Nudler, this study will analyze three main historiographic controversies of the last decades: a) the controversy over the concept of long durée (long term); b) the controversy over narrativism; and c) the controversy over the representation of the past in the light of traumatic events. The last controversy, however, leads us to travel beyond the epistemological plane of the model in question and to explore, in the realm of the double hermeneutic of theory and agent, the existence of a correlation between a historiographic refocalization –defined by the tension between memory and history– and what is called, using a term introduced by François Hartog (2003) regime of historicity, which belongs to the framework in which memory has played a role in late modern society. Ver edición on line del libro entero como Google Book en http://books.google.com