“Memoriography, history and the “experience of the past”.

DANIEL BRAUER

Gante

Congreso; 1) VIII European Social Science History Conference 2010, Gante (Bélgica),; 2010

European Social Science History

In spite of the fact that changes in conceptual paradigms turn out to be imposible to date with precision would be able to be affirmed that from the 90s the narrative turn in philosophy of history coexists but goes being each more replaced time by the so called memory boom (J. Winters). This last one, constitutes an important cultural phenomenon that goes beyond purely academic studies, but indicates also the limitations and exhaustion of a purely linguistic approach to epistemology of history.  In this framework, I examine critically the notion of experience in the work of D. Lacapra and F. Ankersmit (but also in Koselleck and others) and I try to respond to the question about the ways of access to the "reality" of the past.