This article analyses the theoretical and methodological aspects of contemporary historiography, focusing on dialectics as its major issue. Departing from Emília Viotti's outstanding text "A dialética invertida", in which a synthesis between structuralist and post-modern perspectives is proposed, as its point of departure, I argue that a certain marxist tradition have never failed in putting into practice the essential synthesis of the dialectical method.
Historiography; Dialetics; Marxism