Diagnóstico de um mal-estar historiográfico: os limites do conhecimento analítico-discursivo

Abstract

This article is composed with some reflections on the supra-empirical foundations of disciplinary knowledge generally applied to historiography, whether it is considered a science or not. The supra-empirical conditions designated by the concepts of meaning and value as well as the distinction between the practical significance of a theory or theoretical interpretation and their respective cognitive value, may clarify aspects of historical knowledge that immunize it of the guilt-consciousness generated by the fact of it to be held hostage to the discourse and language. Among them, the most urgent clarification corresponds to what it means, in History, "being caused."