The modern tradition of the Current History

• Huget Santos, Montserrat ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

     Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
• Localización: Tiempo devorado: revista de historia actual, ISSN-e 2385-5452, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Bales per vots. Activisme i violència política a Europa des de 1991), págs. 145-151
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Does Current Events make history? Is it possible a history out of Current Events?  What does it mean Current Events in a historical perspective?... These are the kind of question that historians and philosophers are used to discuss. Two great achieves of Current Era thinking are the certainty that the passage of time do not clean history, and that the true is not superior because of the passing of the time. Even more, past is not always certitude as present does not mean always unconvicting feelings. And the passing of time do no safeguard Historians, each one concerned by his own worries.  The advantage of past on present is the lack of survivors to reject or change historians version and fables are, of course, the matter of most reconstructions of the pass time. So, as many historians see History as some kind of fiction, may be “true” rests just in the current history.