ALUN MUNSLOW’S CRITICAL READINGS

RELATIVISM AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC CAPITAL IN DECONSTRUCTING HISTORY.

Abstract

The article first elaborates a presentation of the book Descontructing history of Alun Munslow, placing its central elements in two great themes. Of these, the first is about the participation of said text in the neu descontructionist relativism, which dialogues with post-structuralist assumption that history is a discursive formation. The second point is the exposition about the treatment that Munslow proposes to the historiographic text, which must be guided by the good narrative construction whose end is its social acceptance. The following two moments of confrontation with the work are elaborated, delimiting the contradictions presente in the thoretical reference of the own text that uses Michael Foucault – this being situated in opposition to the new relativism,, and Roger Chartier that refuses the notion of na uncompromised historiographic text with society. In this sense, it is intensed to problematize a debate with a contemporary author of the área of history theory, aiming to expose that the theses defended by him are not supported precisely by his inability to articulate his theoretical framework with the arguments he advocates.