The present time historian as a subject "affected by the past". History writing and historical consciousness

Abstract

The article proposes, from the theory of history, to understand the so-called History of Present Time, beyond its disciplinary characteristics, as an intellectual phenomenon articulated from the problem of contemporary historicity. For this, adding to the thesis that invites to think about its emergence and development within a regime of presentism historicity from the end of the last century to the present, it is proposed to understand the historian of the present time as a subject “affected by the past”, using Paul Ricoeur's conceptual proposal about historical consciousness. From this perspective, it establishes an analysis from a cognitive subject in relation to the historicity regime, an articulation is presented that evaluates what types of relations with the past and the future establish this type of history writing. As a corollary, the research establishes that HTP is a generator of a particular type of historical consciousness that breaks with the logic of presentism.