THINKING HISTORY: THE PERSPECTIVE OF A HISTORIAN OF THE MENTALITIES

Abstract

This article discusses the changes that occurred in Historiography regarding the interpretations of Brazil and the ideology of Brazilian Culture, related to a new historical stage that calls for the re - discussion of old concepts. Therefore, it questions in what historical beacons the Critique of the Culture can be oriented, before so many new paradigms and the revolution in the epistemological plane of several historiográficos fields