GRUZINSKI, Serge: ¿Para que sirve la historia? Madrid, Alianza, 2018, 248 pp.
Author | José Carlos Muñoz Castellanos |
Pages | 239-242 |
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GRUZINSKI, Serge: ¿Para que sirve la historia? Madrid, Alianza, 2018,
248 pp.
JOSÉ CARLOS MUÑOZ CASTELLANOS
Este libro lleva como título un interrogante que nos transporta directamente a
la apologie pour l´histoire ou métier d´historien de Marc Bloch, que arranca
con la petición que un niño le hace a su padre, historiador de profesión: “pa-
pá, explícame para qué sirve la historia”. Sin embargo, lejos de entrar en las
funciones, a veces sumamente divergentes, que puede tener el ejercicio de
construcción histórica, Gruzinski en este libro se dedica a reflexionar sobre
qué historia es necesario construir y enseñar hoy en día. Y lo hace en un
marco concreto: el debate historiográfico actual entre los defensores de arti-
cular una historia global, que supere el estado-nación como punto de refe-
rencia para la creación historiográfica; y aquellos que opinan que se debe
mantener estas referencias locales para entender adecuadamente la historia y
para evitar el difuminado de la identidad en estos tiempos de intensa globali-
zación.
El historiador francés, autor de obras como La colonización de lo imagi-
nario o La guerra de las imágenes. De Cristobal Colón a Blade Runner
(1492-2019), ya ha defendido esta visión globalizadora y que apela a la larga
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