Causality and intentionality: a contribution to the debate on the explanatory dimension of historiograhy
The process of reconstructing the past comprises the explanatory procedure. Although relativized in recent decades, this article argues the need for emphasizing such procedure, based on the acknowledgment of the referent–representation relationship, which reintroduced the theme of historicity in the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2021 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | UFOP |
| Repository: | História da Historiografia |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/1632 |
| Online Access: | https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1632 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Historical explanation theory of history historical causality Explicação histórica Teoria da história Causalidade histórica Explicación histórica teoría de la história causalidad histórica |
| Summary: | The process of reconstructing the past comprises the explanatory procedure. Although relativized in recent decades, this article argues the need for emphasizing such procedure, based on the acknowledgment of the referent–representation relationship, which reintroduced the theme of historicity in the theory of history. My hypothesis states that historians’ reconstructive bases reinforce the role of intentionality as the structuring principle of historical explanation. Moreover, considering the multi-descriptive nature of historiography, which does not object to the core of tropological reflections, examining the internal logic of historical explanations counters relativistic theses – generally expressed in pseudo-historical arguments that confound different explanations with divergent explanations. |
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