The Construction Of The Other In Historiography: Testimony And Politics Of Time
This paper aims to explore the relationship between historiography, testimony, and temporality. We try to elucidate what are the epistemic decisions involved in the "use" of oral testimonies in historiography, as well as the temporal presuppositions that these research and writing decision...
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Facultad de Humanidades UNCo
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/filosofia/article/view/4752 |
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| Sumario: | This paper aims to explore the relationship between historiography, testimony, and temporality. We try to elucidate what are the epistemic decisions involved in the "use" of oral testimonies in historiography, as well as the temporal presuppositions that these research and writing decisions imply. This work is guided by the idea that these choices have ethical, epistemological, and political consequences, which lead historians to consider what has been witnessed as belonging to the past or the present.
In this sense, we will propose three possible ways in which historiography, temporality, and testimony are related: the “inferential” way, the “mimetic” and, finally, the “dialogic” one. Each of them corresponds to a temporal order that supposes a specific relationship between the present and the past. These temporal relationships will be conceptualized from the notions of "rupture", "collapse" and "irrevocability", respectively. As a consequence, the result of the different forms of articulation between testimony, historiography, and temporality would result in different ways of constructing the “other” as a witness based on its temporal quality. |
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