Discover, Dispossess: Essay on Michel de Certeau and the Place of Ethics in Theory and Historiography

• Autor(a) principal: Marcelino, Douglas Attila
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: História da Historiografia
• Texto Completo: https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1627
• topic: Ethics; Writing of history; Michel de Certeau; Ética; Escrita da história; Michel de Certeau

This essay considers the ethical assumptions related to the configurations of dominions with a disciplinary nature as a central interrogation of studies on the theory of history and historiography. The risks of establishing frontiers and thus of a determined mode of relating with each other are placed in a critical perspective, problematizing an ethics of passage, crossing, and circulation and, on the other hand, its refusal through the secondarization of the body, of care, and vulnerability. These reflections are initially guided through a dialogue with various authors, and then analyzed in greater depth based on a similar questioning carried out by Michel de Certeau. With that, we seek to indicate the wealth of his formulations and their consequences in favor of an ethics for theoretical and historiographic studies, above all because it allows the rethinking of appropriation and possession tendencies that can characterize research about the writing of history.