Historia Conceptual y Filosofía de la Historia desde una perspectiva leibniziana

The present text aims to establish a critical dialogue between Conceptual History and the Philosophy of History. On one hand, this dialogue refers to the purported beginning of “semantic identity” in Modernity. On the other hand, it refers to the very notion of “historical knowledge” and with it, of the collective and particular historical experiences of which it is made: we cannot forget that the subject of historical knowledge is not merely –or fundamentally- the History scholar, but those who “make” that History or “suffer” it, as well. Moreover, they also, in fact, contribute to create the conceptual humus of an experience that is translated –or should be translated- to ethical responsibility regarding these very concepts. The critique of Classical Philosophy of History thus reaches out to the proposal to rehabilitate a Critical Philosophy of History; in both of these aspects of the general discipline, different Leibnizian concepts are presented as antecedents. This could not be otherwise in a text devoted to my beloved and long-missed friend Quintin Racionero –a text that will never be the same because I can no longer discuss it with him.