A história como “logos do outro”: Michel de Certeau e a operação historiográfica

Abstract

The present article aims to discuss the concepct of “heterology”, crucial to the understanding of the work of the french historian Michel de Certeau, to whom historiography is a discourse about the “other”. The writing of history, by articulating a social place to the creation of a narrative discourse through specific practices and techniques, becomes a way of dealing with the alterity of an “other” which is lost, of an absent one that, according to Certeau, is the object of history. Therefore, we seek to investigate how Certeau understands the articulations between the social place and the historical discourse, once they are essential not only to comprehend what historians do when they “make history”, but also the epistemological status of historiography itself.