Abstract

This text addresses the centrality of flesh, bodies and desires in the writing of history. How to bring bodies and their sensibilities, emotions and emotions to the heart of writing history is a political gesture of the utmost importance. It is about the historian not only aiming to account for the forms that shaped and shaped the past, but also wanting to make his own body, his flesh, an instrument for the passage of affections, forces and intensities that still inhabit the remains, the signs, the materials that came to us from the past, measuring and evaluating through the ability to affect that each of these presences from the past still have, their possibilities of having an effect and mobilizing people in the present time.

Keywords:
Historiography; Flesh; Body