The criticism of retrodiction and mechanistic notion of progress: Nietzsche, Benjamin and Guha

Abstract

This article aims to reflect about contemporary critic to the mechanic notion of “progress” and, more specifically, about the methodological problem of the historiography “retro diction”. It is discussed initially the question of the finalism in the teleological approach of History, and, in the sequence, it is examined the really question that involves this and other problems presented in the construction of the historiography explanations: the retro diction. After theorymethodological clarifications about the question, with historiography examples, they are developed commentaries about some authors that have elaborated perceptions of this problem, among whose Friedrich Nietzsche, Walther Benjamin, Ramjet Gotha, Christopher Hill e Joseph Fontana.