摘要：This paper analyses present time history (Ricouer, 2003) using as
categories the concept of critical hermeneutics, that in Ricouer¡äs view
means putting limits to any totalitarian plan; and, on the other hand,
exploring the validity reasons of a historiography conscious of its limits.
With these premises in mind, we deal with the immanence of the social
Bolivarian imaginary in the invention of the tradition of the .Bolivarian
revolution.. After the constituent process of 1999, a new Constitution
was forged for the rebaptised Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Since
then a new political process named Bolivarian Revolution started. Almost
simultaneously, started the construction of a new nationalism that retakes
the invented practices of tradition (Hobsbawn, 2002), characterised by
the ritualization of Bolivar¡¯s figure and of the nation¡¯s symbols, specially
the Flag and the Shield. In the same way as it was done in the XIX
century, it makes references to the heroic past of Venezuelan people in
order to set up a Bolivarian neonationalism. We will go from historic
knowledge to critical hermeneutics, in order to disclose the idea of history
as total reflection. That forced prejudice that History explains everything,
and, therefore, legitimates everything, must be put in evidence in order to
overcome the alienation of present time.
关键词：critical hermeneutics, neonationalism, social imaginary
