The Intellectual History that we practice, just as it is

Abstract

This article focuses on the figure of the researcher, showing his personal dimension and suggesting some elements of reflection, control and self-government. In this sense, (i) it provides a general framework for the practice of intellectual history; (ii) distinguishes between subjectivity, subjectivity, and identity; (iii) offers some examples from the practice of intellectual history before and after the Spanish Civil War; (iv) proposes to keep analytically separated the aspects of ontology, methodology, and epistemology; (v) deals with the contributions of digital culture and techniques in the practice of the researcher; (vi) advocates for setting research teams both to mitigate biases as much as possible, and to address the complexity of the conceptual outcomes of human societies; (vii) and ultimately defends the plural personality, identity and intuition of the researcher to carry out this work.