1968: TEMPORAL RUPTURES AND THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORICAL SCIENCE

Abstract

The year 1968 constitutes one of the most important temporal ruptures of the 20th century within the
capitalist world-system. Latin America has strengthened its historical role, its marked geopolitical
interest for the central areas, and has become a hotbed of theory. The cracking of the traditional
structures of social knowledge built and inherited for more than a century, requires rethinking the
channels of historical science and the rescue of the highest traditions of genuinely critical and
totalizing thought to temper it to the realities and historical circumstances of the region. Only in this
way, the fragmented visions of contemporary science will be overcome and the genesis, originality,
complexity and multiple prospective scenarios of the historical processes in Latin America and the
intellectual battles that the contemporary social researcher is called to face can be glimpsed.