Michel De Certeau: Historia y Ficción

Abstract

The article describes and analyzes the design of Michel De Certeau on historiographical practice, identifying a combinatorial relationship between three elements as the constitutive dimension of the work of the historian. These elements are: social and institutional place upon which the historical speech is built, the specific procedures of historical research and a unique practice of writing which seeks to reconcile rationality and fiction. In the latter sense, to make history would imply both an endless and inexhaustible of that referred narrative production to the Other in the past. From these keys, finally it is outlined a problematization in the historicized task of philosophy as a kind of writing that is linked with the absent.