Diálogos quanto aos conceitos relacionados ao tempo

Abstract

The discussion of temporalization within historical discourses presents us, among other nuances, the concepts that orbit it. In this sense, proposing a deeper dialogue on this issue can contribute as a theoretical basis for students, researchers and history lovers in the debate, reflection and problematization of the ways of conceiving the temporalization of history. Thus, this article aims to discuss concepts related to time. In order to respond to this scenario, we used a documental and bibliographic research, which was based on scientific articles, books, dissertations, theses, websites, among other sources, for the survey, collection and analysis of data in a qualitative way. As a result, we dialogued on three characteristics that are correlated to time: temporality, duration, and historical process. In relation to the first, which is temporality, this is made through the human perception of unders tanding the temporal connection existing between past, present, and future. The second is established by duration, therefore, we consider that this is not regulated by chronological time, but rather, its subjective understanding is relative to the movement and permanence from the present to the new. The third characteristic is the historical process, which is based on the succession of historical events. However, it should be noted that around the historical process gravitate relevant concepts such as: historical event/fact; becoming; and, continuities and ruptures. These concepts are complementary, but at the same time antagonistic, and they fight among themselves in the field of study of each human activity or even among them. Therefore, we perceive them as dialectically united in a flux in which they are established as the driving force of the very movement of history. We conclude, then, that when discussing about the concepts that orbit the issue of time, it allows the widening of the theoretical fra mework for a generation of historians who were formed without a more consistent reflection on temporalization within the historical discourses.