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What defines a historical event? Understanding the past and the life of social communities

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No. 55 (2021): Diciembre

Abstract

In this work we will investigate the characteristics that define a historical event. To do this we will distinguish the two aspects that can be identified in consideration of its historical condition: the way in which the social community recognizes and signifies a specific event as such, and the way in which historical science takes it for its object. We will first make a general approach to the very idea of the event, then we will ask ourselves the question of how events are endowed with meaning and transmitted from generation to generation. Finally, we will return to the problem of defining an event, for which we will consider the linguistic dimension that informs that historical object.

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event, generation, historiography, transmission

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Rosa E. Belvedresi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

Profesora Titular del Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas (CONICET), Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, UNLP-CONICET. Doctora en Filosofía. La Plata-Buenos Aires, Argentina. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-97690700.
Correo electrónico: rosabelvedresi@gmail.com

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Belvedresi, R. E. (2021). What defines a historical event? Understanding the past and the life of social communities. Cuadernos De Historia, (55), pp. 21–36. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/65317
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