For a receptive History of the Intellectual and its texts in context

Abstract

The writing is based on a historiographical review on intellectual history promoted from Argentina (qualifying it with some proposals from historians in Mexico), which has prevailed on the continent in the last two decades of the 21st century. The study presented here shows the paths chosen by historians after the linguistic turn and the need to differentiate intellectual history from the history of ideas; from their two purposes have been derived, the first, to reflect on the conceptual categories: intellectual, text and context. In this sense, I allowed myself to expose uses of these last two concepts for archival research and the choice of the type of sources for the understanding of the intellectual and his texts. The second objective consisted of raising the nature and characteristics of the intellectual, showing the contradictions of the discourse in the text.

The article closes with concerns about how to apprehend intellectuals through their public and intimate context, which involves their social, political, and cultural actions, showing the importance of interdisciplinary in which intellectual history is covered today.