Contributions of Edward Palmer Thompson to the construction of historical knowledge

Abstract

This article to present the contributions of the english historian Edward Palmer Thompson to the production of historical knowledge. The article is organized in some reflexive movements: in the first moment, I discuss the limits of science for the production of historical knowledge. In the second movement, I present the importance of the contributions of the thompson's reflexive for the researcher for the researcher to find other alternatives ways of building knowledge. In the third movement, I justify the choice of dialogue with the work "Miséria da Teoria", especially with the chapter Break: historical logic. Still in the fourth movement, I try to weave some possible dialogues with Thompson's propositions on Historical Logic as a mode of production of historical knowledge. Finally, I invite the reader to lead us to a rationality that allows the construction of knowledge that is articulated with the lived experiences of the subjects, woven in dialogic relationships, that make more sense for all who participate in this production and, above all, committed to the social transformation.