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PEREZ MORALES, Enrique. Writing historicity. The ontological history of Edmundo O’Gorman. Hist. graf [online]. 2025, n.64, pp.343-376.  Epub 25-Fev-2025. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi64.559.

Edmundo O’Gorman identifies a metaphysical and ahistorical fundament in scientific historiography: the being (identity) of things is a fixed, invariant essence, independent of any sociohistorical determination. This fundament prevents the practice of an “authentic historiography” that allows the development of a “true historical consciousness.” Thus, O’Gorman asks: how can we think the past outside this ahistorical “metaphysics of presence”? His answer is based on an ontological argument of a Heideggerian nature: the being is historical and, therefore, historicity (temporality) is its condition of possibility. However, when giving an account of historicity as the horizon of the being, O’Gorman does nothing but conceive it, paradoxically, from the same metaphysics of presence from which he sought to escape. The aim of this paper is to analyze Ogorman’s aporetic in order to meditate the question of how to think past historically.

Palavras-chave : Historicity; temporality; being-historically; ontological history; metaphysics of presence; essentialism.

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