An “interminably rethought image”: Notes on Images in spite of all by Georges Didi-Huberman

• Autor(a) principal: Fontes Filho, Osvaldo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: História da Historiografia
• Texto Completo: https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1808
• topic: Imagem; Imaginação; História; Image; Imagination; History

This article discusses the means through which the historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman analyses the visual criticism of the images of history in his book Images in spite of all. Considered by the author as “the eye of history,” image has a tenacious vocation to render visible historical opacities; however, some visual documents in history are only partially recoverable. This study presents some arguments found in Didi-Huberman that a politics of imagination to the historian, functioning as a methodological substitute for any investment in the full and absolute legibility of an “authentic image of the past.” By doing that, it seeks to observe some philosophical-anthropological facets of a historiographic proposal for approaching the intermittencies and opacities of a perspective that assumes image as an interminable “lacunar necessity.”