The critic to the history in the thought of José Martí

Abstract

In José Martí's thought, the critic's development as method for the understanding of facts and processes of the history and the present that he lived, contributed from an effective way to the interpretation of the historical context of the second half of the XIX century. Without being profession historian, in their thought the objectivity, the virtue and the justice conform essences for the exercise from the critic to the history. The investigation that supports the article required the employment of different methods and technical: the analytic-synthetic one, for the summary of the information; the localization, registered and critic of the sources related with the topic. Representative texts were analyzed that allowed to base the validity from the critic to the history in José's thought Martí like expression of the development of the social justice from the second half of the XIX century.