Del logocentrismo a la textualidadla autobiografía académica como intervención historiográfica

Abstract

This essay studies how the so-called "crisis of history", a period of intense epistemological reevaluation from the 1970s to today, has influenced historians and the historical discipline. These changes have led to a historiographical revolution in three general stages: from the postwar paradigms to postmodern movements (the linguistic turn), to which the third way-cultural history-has been added. In order to analyze these transformations, I focus on autobiographical essays by three historians considered representative of the new tendencies: William H. Sewell Ir., Gabrielle Spiegel y Robert Rosenstone. These historians use their autobiographical narratives to contextualize, explain and define not only their field of expertise, but also the process of historical inscription. These texts are performative as much as informative, as they contribute to changing the course of historiography. The paper concludes that these forms of self-reflection and self-representation are crucial to the development of our understanding of reality. Thus academic autobiographies which, until recently were not considered a valid documentary source for historiography, thus become a vital multilayered source of information about intellectual processes and the negotiation of history.