Uma história reacionária? Reflexões sobre a desdemocratização do passado nos Estados Unidos da “Era Trump”

Arthur Lima de Avila

doi:10.15848/hh.v18.2070

Authors

Arthur Lima de Avila Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15848/hh.v18.2070

Keywords:

Negationism, Uses of history, American historiography

Abstract

This study analyzes modern conservatism as a discursive-performative phenomenon, articulating two dimensions: Edmund Burke epistemology establishing moral historicism as a critique of rationalism, and François-René de Chateaubriand linguistic intervention institutionalizing "conservative" as a political category. Through linguistic contextualism and speech act theory, we demonstrate that the founding of Le Conservateur (1818-1820) constituted an illocutionary act transforming moral disposition into political identity. Conservatism emerges as a grammar of historical continuity reconciling contingency and normativity. The performative approach reveals power as a symbolic effect of language creating identities and political realities, offering an analytical model for contemporary debates on discourse and identity.

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