SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY” IN A WORLD “WITHOUT HISTORY”. ITS RELATION WITH THE CURRENT POLITICAL PRACTICES AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE HISTORIAN FORMATION

Abstract

In our times, the disappearance of the so called Speculative Philosophies of History seems to be a fact, at least in the political an academic discussion fields, and the consequent apparition of a new philosophy of History. This new philosophy leaves aside the speculative pretensions and the metaphysical pollution of the speculative philosophers, and recovers was an object of study, typical aspects of the philosophy of Sciences and the analysis af language, being also interested in the epistemological status and the construction of historical tales.
We live in political periods affected by different kinds of conflicts: economic and military invasions religious and political fundamentalisms, economic, cultural, military and imperialisms, milenarisms, which indicate “the end of the metaphysical- world” from which geopolitics seems not to have learned about.
It all happens as if metaphysic would have reached its point only in the speeches and narrative texts, but not in the political world and its believes.
In this world, we will try to discuss the role of speculative Philosophy of History an its possible contributions to historians and historiography, in a world affected (trespassed) by new ways of “historical tales”, apparently empty of metaphysical assumptions.
The importance of such study is not merely anecdotic. It can help scientists who are concerned in history, discover that, indeed today –in this so called world of the final metaphysic- the apparently assumptions of human actions are still alive and they directly influence over the social praxis, changing them, transforming them, mutating them.
And those assumptions have to be read and understood from their own origin and function.