La noción de “obra virtual” y la historia del pensamiento político. A propósito de Le Moment Guizot

Abstract

The article analyses the notion of “virtual work” signed by Pierre Rosanvallon at Le moment Guizot. From that objective, the article reviews the major lines of renewal in political history, the political thought, and, in general, French historiography. In such inquiry, the ideological turns and the historiographical proposals are interpreted attending the French political context of the last decades. So, intellectual context, political climates and historiographical renewals are brought into dialogue with the objective of circumscribe the appearance context of the notion of “virtual work”. At the same time, this notion is analyzed from the questions about “life and work” arising on the renewals in the field of Biography of the last decades.