Cooling of hot societies? - Critique of modernity, intellectual history and political history

Authors

  • Francine Iegelski Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2016.109305

Keywords:

Modernity, presentism, brazilian temporal experiences

Abstract

This article takes Claude Lévi-Strauss's and François Hartog's interpretations about the change of sensibility towards time and history, at the twilight of the twentieth century, as a starting point to understand the critique of modernity's ideals that characterizes humanities and social sciences today. Then, we propose investigating the relationship between Reinhart Koselleck's pair “modernity and historical time” and Hartog's “presentism and regimes of historicity”. Finally, to demonstrate the relevance of this short-circuiting between history and anthropology, we propose an approach to the diverse spectrum of Brazil's contemporary political, historical and literary temporal experiences during the process of redemocratization and its promises of future.

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Author Biography

  • Francine Iegelski, Universidade Federal Fluminense

    Doutora em História Social e mestre em Letras pela Universidade de São Paulo, com pósdoutorados na École des hautes études en sciences sociales e na Universidade de São Paulo. Professora Adjunta do Instituto de História da Universidade Federal Fluminense. 

Published

2016-12-20

How to Cite

IEGELSKI, Francine. Cooling of hot societies? - Critique of modernity, intellectual history and political history. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 175, p. 385–414, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2016.109305. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/109305.. Acesso em: 15 may. 2024.