The end of history and the burden of temporality

Abstract

The present essay aims, from the standpoint provided by the works of Hayden White e Fredric Jameson, to discuss the notions of “the burden of history” and “the end of temporality”, by confronting them both with our current political conjuncture and with life under neoliberalism as well with the problems that seem to plague disciplined historiography. The main argument of the text is that these problems do not solely concern theoretical and methodological questions internal to the discipline, but also concern deeper changes in the temporal order that gave it birth and that any attempt to rethink historiography to our age must confront its own politics of historical time.