THE HISTORY IN PERMANENT CRISES STATE?

CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT CRITIC, MODERNITY AND HISTORY CONHECIMENT OF MICHEL FOUCALT

Abstract

Abstract

The present article begins with diagnoses, contemporaneous and modern, of a crisis of historical knowledge. Nowadays, there is talk of a possible exhaustion of the modern concept of history. However, from the reading of Michel Foucault it is argued that: much of what is understood as an attack on the values of modernity and/or of the Enlightenment was already present in the thinking of the modern authors themselves. Pierre Bayle's (1647-1706) trajectory is used as an example to corroborate this hypothesis. The notion of criticism formulated by Michel Foucault is the articulating point to make considerations in two senses: 1) alternative ways of rethinking the idea of modernity; 2) alternatives to what has been understood as a presentist regime of historicity.

Keywords: criticism, modernity, historiography.