Allan Megill, Introduo: Teorias da Histria ca.

1870-1940: Objetividade e antinomias em um tempo

de crise existencial. [Introduction: Theories of History ca. 1870-1940: Objectivity and the Antinomies of
History in a Time of Existential Crisis], trans. Srgio Campos Gonalvos.

In Jurandir Malerba, ed., Lies de histria: Da histria cientfica crise da razo metdica no limiar
do sculo XX (Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2013 [ISBN 978 85 397 0320 3]). Pp. 11-37.

This book offers an excellent collection of translations of and commentaries on the work of various
historians and theorists of history from Nietzsche and Burckhardt to Bloch and Febvre. The volume was
preceded by Lies de histria, vol. 1, with an introduction by the French historian Franois Dosse, that
offers heavy coverage of nineteenth-century historical theory (although it starts with Voltaire and also
contains some early twentieth-century material). Both volumes were edited by the Brazilian historian
Jurandir Malerba. We might think of these volumes as Varieties of History from Voltaire to the Present
(ed. Fritz Stern) on steroids. In particular, there is much better coverage of non-historians, especially in
the new volume, which includes excerpts from and commentaries on such important thinkers about
history as Weber, Rickert, Simmel, Croce, and Collingwood.

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Sinopse
Esta antologia centra-se na chamada "crise do Historicismo", entre o ltimo quarto do sculo
XIX e o primeiro do XX. Perodo conturbado, marcado pelo pice da Europa na Era dos
imprios, a chamada segunda industrializao, a Belle poque e todas as contradies que
impactaram aquela civilizao, desembocando na Primeira Guerra Mundial, na Revoluo
Russa, na crise fi nanceira de 1929 e na ascenso do Fascismo e do Nazismo. Esses
acontecimentos picos deixavam claro aos historiado- res ocidentais que o tipo de narrao
histrica herdada do scu- lo anterior, intimamente ajustado ao projeto de construo das naes-
Estado, havia se tornado obsoleto. Falava-se, ento, de um "mal-estar" da civilizao europeia.
No campo acadmico, reclamava-se a reorientao de uma histria de fundo cvico, construda a
partir da crtica meticulosa dos documentos, em direo a outras questes fi losficas,
epistemolgicas e metodolgicas.

Informaes
ISBN: 9788539703203
Cd. Barras: 9788539703203
Reduzido: 8539703203
Acabamento: BROCHURA
Edio: 1 / 2013
Nmero de Paginas: 539