FROM THE REVOLT AGAINST HISTORICAL TIME TO THE POTENTIALITY OF ANACHRONISM IN THE WRITING OF HISTORY

Abstract

Modern, chronological and linear time has never had full adherence of peoples; historicism has never been peacefully accepted among thinkers. In the footsteps of Walter Benjamin, the article defends a historiography that discovers in the depths of history, the matter that reconnects the human spirit; that contemplates the assembly of times, of the impure time that is introduced in the configuration of a historical event. From the critique of linear time of progress, one goes to the defense of anachronism, considering that the existence of being and of cultures is made of diverse temporalities. The experience of time is not the same as the representation of the chronological time of modernity. The past is not something enclosed; time is not something external and transcendent to humanity. The past is not only strange to us; it is not just another time. We are also descendants, different and similar to the men and women who preceded us.