The Crisis of History and the Poststructuralist Wave

Abstract

Poststructuralism produced a valorization of the narrative in the historical discourse that generated several difficulties for the historian. In this paper, the impact of a poststructuralist wave on the discipline of history and on the metaphysical perspectives of historians is evaluated. The so-called "crisis of history" is analyzed as a crisis of historians who, motivated by an ontology alien to historical values, react negatively to the loss of their realistic referents.

Keywords

• Crise da História
• Pós-estruturalismo
• Narrativa Histórica
• Metafísica