Dialogue and Event. Jaime Eyzaguirre and Julio Cesar Jobet

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Abstract

To what extent can intellectual dialogue be considered a historical event? Under what criteria? Must it be intentional? Under what epistemological circumstances can this scenario take place? To approach these questions, this essay advances the “historiographical comparison” as a scheme of analysis. To this end, the strictly historiographical reflections of two essential historians’ representative of what have become known as the conservative and Marxist schools of historiography, namely Jaime Eyzaguirre and Julio César Jobet, respectively, were interpreted. The question of whether these authors belonged to what is also known as the “Chilean generation of 1938” is also discussed. Finally, we have made progress in the discussion of the concepts of “canon” and “historical literacy”.

Keywords:

Event, Comparative historiographies, Chilean Historiography, Cannon, Conservadurism, Marxism, Historical literacy

Author Biography

Luis Gueneau de Mussy R., Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Académico de la Facultad de Artes Liberales, Departamento de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Ph. D., King´s College London. Santiago, Chile.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1303-5865.
Correo electrónico: luis.demussy@uai.cl