Tempo e acontecimento: a história social e o pensamento de Jacques Rancière

Abstract

This paper presents Jacques Rancière's critiques of French social history, especially Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel, based on the writings of the French philosopher on history. These historians' conceptions of time and their hierarchical relationship between temporalities and events were discussed, in order to present Rancière's critiques of this conception of time and its relational dimension with historical science and truth. The critique of the hierarchy of times, and especially of the concept of anachronism, is part of a larger set of reflections that see the necessary relationship of likelihood between subjects, times and mentalities, the imposition of identities that has as one of its main bases, the suppression of events, small groups and subjects. Finally, we can perceive in Rancière a commitment to a philosophical assumption with the equality of subjects and their capacities, which can also be interpreted as a writing of history that takes into account the moments of hierarchical suspensions, of claims for equality of importance. between subjects and themes.