Abstract

IMAZ SHEINBAUM, Mariana. What is Historical Freedom?. Interpret. Rev. herméneut [online]. 2024, vol.9, n.2, pp.41-61.  Epub Oct 23, 2024. ISSN 2448-864X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.irh.2024.2/010s2701wo573.

This article introduces a new idea of freedom within the historical discourse. The idea of historical freedom that I develop here has to do with the possibility of reinventing ourselves through the redescription and redefinition of our individual and collective experiences. In this sense, I argue that historical freedom is composed of an existential freedom that allows us to choose our past —as well as our future— and an expressive freedom that allows us to revisit past experiences in the light of new conceptual frameworks. Such notions —existential and expressive freedom— are by no means new. The existentialism of Sartre recovered by Hayden White, addresses the idea of existential freedom within the historical field. Likewise, the idea of expressive freedom was developed by the American philosopher Robert Brandom in 1979. The novelty of my proposal lies in combining these concepts to understand that our past is not once and for all, but we are free to resignify experiences to understand ourselves differently from new present needs.

Keywords : existential freedom; expressive freedom; historical freedom; resignify; replot.

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