Primeiros rascunhos: Aproximações entre michel de certeau e a história do tempo presente

Abstract

In a purposeful way, this text aims to establish approximations between Michel de Certeau’s reflections about the historiographical operation and the history of the present time. The structure of this text marks the reflexive tone that guides it: initially, are presented Michel de Certeau’s propositions about the historiographical operation, that materialize in a working and a writing; in sequence, are presented the reflections that seek in the discussions about the epistemology of distance and the historical story the points in which it’s possible to face the theoretical and methodological dilemmas of history of the present time. Through these discussions it was possible to explore one of the questions which are recurrently directed to the history of the present time approach that refer to the chronological proximity that ties researchers to their objects. In Certeau’s point of view there are insurmountable boundaries that separate the real dimension as a practice in the past that historians get to know, and as something that refer to a narrative process that intend to grant meaning to this real. It can be concluded that Certeau’s ideas make possible to think that in the space characterized by a longstanding distance that compose the historiographical operation there is no more recent or less recent event that interfere in the history making, because the historian is always writing in the likelihood of the present, which means that writing history is a practice only contemporary to itself.