Abstract
This article takes Claude Lévi-Strauss’s and François Hartog’s interpretations about the change of sensibility towards time and history, at the twilight of the twentieth century, as a starting point to understand the critique of modernity’s ideals that characterizes humanities and social sciences today. Then, we propose investigating the relationship between Reinhart Koselleck’s pair “modernity and historical time” and Hartog’s “presentism and regimes of historicity”. Finally, to demonstrate the relevance of this short-circuiting between history and anthropology, we propose an approach to the diverse spectrum of Brazil’s contemporary political, historical and literary temporal experiences during the process of redemocratization and its promises of future.
Keywords
Modernity; presentism; Brazilian temporal experiences