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In this paper, we will investigate the representation of the Holocaust as a theoretical problem in historiography. To present our approach to this issue, we will first develop one of its most significant expressions: the already classic work Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution”, compiled by Saul Friedlander in 1992, and we will analyze the proposals of some of the leading authors who participated in it. Then, we will address what we have called the “problem of the adequacy between event and representation”, and we will establish our position on it. Finally, we will present some of the main conclusions that we derive in relation to the problems studied.

This article attempts to establish a link between some conceptual assumptions behind Truth and Method, by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Max Weber’s concerning the role of social science. In this sense, it is discussed some of the debates belonging to what can be called “theory of historical knowledge”. Thus, to arrive at the Gadamerian notion of a fusion of horizons, as a mechanism to confront the truth, the central elements of hermeneutics of understanding are addressed. At the same time, it is explained in what way Weber is coinciding with the epistemological concern suggested in Truth and Method, by questioning both the “subjective” perspectives and those that deny the scientist’s life experience in constructing questions with truth value. The article concludes with a brief reflection on how these ideas regarding historical knowledge can trespass the agenda of the history of science. Keywords Science, truth, Gadamer, Weber, historical knowledge

The analysis of the political ideas that promoted Modernity in Hispanic kingdoms surpasses the tightness of a historiographical perspective, because it demands necessarily conceptual clarifications typical of political theory or philosophy, and of political science, excessively attached to the theoretical constructions, which can disregard a necessary contextualization. Beyond the confrontation between evental history and conceptual history, the reluctance of modernist historiography to accept ideology prior to contemporary era denote suspicion of truly multidisciplinary research. In this article is postulated the need to move from multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity in the History of Political Ideas. It is not about so much methodological changes as an authentic transformation of the epistemic bases of approach, mainly to the treatises of the 16th and 17th centuries. Consequently, it is necessary to ask about the performance and limits of interdisciplinarity and the priority of perspectives involved in each case, given the impossibility of absolutely balancing the historiographic and the political sciences. Keywords History of political thought, Modern Age, multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, ideology, mental and imaginary representations

Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet system, the analysis of European post-communist memories constitutes a prolific area of reflection. This article approaches some keys of phenomenon. It addresses its explanation as transnational practices, although focused on the identity affirmation of the national, in relation to certain debates on politics of memory. The second part approaches two concrete commemoration frameworks that show the fluidity between the transnational and the local: The Balkan context, defined by the traumatic rupture of Yugoslav multinational memory, but also by nostalgic memory. And a symbol with great transnational projection – the cross – which has been adapted to the requirements of each national memory and has been involved in polemics, for example, in opposition to the dominant allegorical value of Auschwitz. Keywords Post-communism, historiographical debate, simbology, transnational memories, national memory, nostalgia