Historiographic imposture and hermeneutic challenge: Heidegger´s footprint

Abstract

This text is about the hermeneutic challenge against hegemonic neo-positivist historiography; its discourse is that of micro-speciality (micro-history); its approach ignores the “whole” about a discourse, and only recognizes itself in its «part». Main objective: to raise an ontological hermeneutics based on the thought of Martin Heidegger, for whom the object of study is understood as a «whole» of significance, as an option. Specific objectives: it attempts to expose the intellectual imposture of the official historiographers, who, from different «power-knowing» academic centres, have reproduced the cultural fragmentation of the existing discursivity. The method is Hermeneutic, and requires the reading of a document as a text in order to move forward towards his ontology. This sustains a paradigm: Martin Heidegger´s Being and Time, which unveils the historicity of historiography and his reluctance to the fabric of knowledge. The conclusion and hypotheses are drawn in an interrogative Heideggerian key: could the arduous task of unravelling science from history correspond to historiography?