François Hartog: history in a catastrophic time

Authors

  • Pablo Aravena Núñez Licenciado en Historia y Magíster en Filosofía por la Universidad de Valparaíso. Dr. © en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la Universidad de Chile. Académico de la Universidad Viña del Mar y del Instituto de Historia y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Valparaíso

Abstract

Interview given by french historian François Hartog, during his stay in Valparaíso at the end of 2013. Subjects on his ouvre will be covered, also his thesis where he holds that we live in a period marked by “regimes of presentist historicity”, the meaning of heritage’s overproduction, the memory boom and the link between the future’s block and a dominant ideology.

Keywords:

Regimes of historicity, presentism, historiography, heritage