O que faz da história algo pessoal? / História da Historiografia / 2019

The articles made available to the reader in this theme section of História da Historiografia constitute the second moment of our attempt to answer a question presented as a thematic symposium proposed and organized by Kalle Pihlainen at the IV Congreso Internacional de Filosofía de la Historia in Buenos Aires in November 2017: “What makes history personal?” While ensuing discussions have continued on several fronts, the authors who now publish here — with the exception of the organizers of this section — are not the same who presented in Buenos Aires two years ago. In the intervening time, and through our evolving discussion, we have seen that the question is amenable to a wide range of responses and attracts attention on diverse fronts.

Given the range and variety of potential, relevant opinions and proposals, we have not attempted to definitively systematize or answer the question here — as if that were conceivable in any such endeavor — but to leave it, instead, to be rehearsed, tested, and experimented on by each contributor in the ways they see best. With this, we intend our theme section to shed light on possible approaches to the question of the personal from theoretical viewpoints and concrete situations with distinct provenances. Leia Mais