A productive dialogue between the new intellectual history and historiographic studies

Abstract

This article takes as its starting point the development of intellectual history in the 20th century, paying special attention to the changes proposed by Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck. In this way, context and historical process are analytical keys that emerge as primordial for overcoming ideas as essences. Then, it is emphasized the expansion of theoretical possibilities in intellectual history with the problematization of the contexts of reception of ideas. The argument develops in the sense of postulating that some of the important current concepts - among them that of elective traditions - maintain that the problematization of the researcher's context can be seen in the light of the notions of context and process. The proposal developed in the article is based on these perspectives, in order to postulate that the theoretical and conceptual references used by researchers are prolific for a dense problematization about historiographic studies. In this sense, the researcher's subjectivity is considered to be productive and interconnected to a network of theoretical and conceptual references. The conclusion is that the final product - historiographical work - is not only the result of epistemological keys, but also contemplates the way in which the historian is inserted in the intellectual debates of his field of study.