What we talk about when we talk about history

What are we talking about when we talk about history? An outline of phenomenology of narratives

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i37.838

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One of the problems that concern both philosophers and historians could be formulated in this way: what is our relation to history? But the task of the philosopher and that of the historian in the face of this problem is different. In this paper we propose to develop a series of intuitions about the experience of history from a phenomenological approach. What is our experience of history like? What we are going to defend is that the experience of history is part of our way of being and that our daily life unfolds in a historical horizon. This horizon is intersubjective, that is to say, social, and in it different generations are intertwined, allowing themselves to be motivated and influenced by one another. We argue that the study of history is not about understanding the past, but about understanding the present, and narratives are central to this.

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Rubén Sánchez Muñoz, UPAEP

Es doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Veracruzana. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Nivel I. Miembro Ordinario del Círculo Latinoamericano de Fenomenología. Profesor investigador del Colegio de Filosofía de la BeneméritaUniversidad Autónoma de Puebla. Sus recientes artículos publicados son: “De la ética a la teología. Una mirada desde la fenomenología de Edmund Husserl”, Revista Estudios 119, (vol. XIV (ITAM), 2016, pp. 33-52); “Ética y amor en la filosofía de Edmund Husserl”, Universitas Philosophica, 32 (núm. 64, 2015, pp. 179-196); “El problema de la crisis desde la fenomenología de Edmund Husserl”, Escritos (vol. 23, núm. 50, enero-junio de 1015, pp. 157-177. Sus libros recientes son: Introducción al personalismo de Edith Stein, prólogo de E. González Di Pierro, México, Universidad Pontificia de México, 2016; como coordinador: Reflexiones sobre el hombre y la cultura. Ensayos para pensar el presente (IVEC/CONACULTA, 2016) y junto a Sandra García Pérez, Meditaciones sobre la filosofía de Ortega (UV-Torres Asociados, 2016).

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2026-01-06

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Sánchez Muñoz, R., & Zárate Méndez, Y. (2026). What we talk about when we talk about history: What are we talking about when we talk about history? An outline of phenomenology of narratives. Valenciana, 19(37), 133–158. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i37.838

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Núm. 37 (2026): Valenciana, enero-junio 2026

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