Abstract

“Uchronia, or the Replacement of History” is a work of political philosophy and aesthetics that questions the very notion of historical truth. Edison Carrasco-Jiménez argues that official history—the history we believe we know—is itself a construction, a fiction, a uchronia: a time that does not exist. Through an intellectual dialogue with thinkers such as Renouvier, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Hegel, Baudrillard, and Marx, the author examines how political power and aesthetics generate alternative versions of reality that impose themselves as truth. The book explores how language, perception, and institutions transform facts into representations; how “the pen and the sword” have shaped the course of time; and how the signs and symbols of power create simulacra that replace the real. Uchronia not only reconstructs the genealogy of this falsification but also invites readers to see the present as an active fiction—one that hides the possible and displaces truth into the realm of the imaginary.