The crisis of the historian in the crisis of history: subject and ethics in a social science

Abstract

The next job is to provide a current crisis of history from the historian's task. We've structured around two ideas: the first deals with the crisis of history in strictly scientific terms, ie, the questions that history reproach their failure to produce scientific knowledge in this sense we want to analyze scientific ethics that has been setting around the work of the historian. The second idea, which we have sketched a little, refers to the social crisis of history, ie the distancing or misconceptions that society has on the relevance of historical knowledge, in this case we stop at social participation historian, not only as a social scientist, but also as a person who belongs to a community. Thus, from a critique of scientific ethics and social ethics, for somehow called integral activity of the historian, we intend to reach some synthesis that allows us to glimpse how to perform a task historiographical somehow contribute to the resolution of social problems of today.