| Titre | Clio en exil | |
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| Auteur | François Dosse | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 95-96, 1er et 2e trimestre 1990 Mission et démission des sciences sociales | |
| Page | 103-118 | |
| Résumé anglais |
François Dosse, Clio en exil
At the present time, the notion of historicity is in crisis. The idea of progress, of the articulation of a Utopia seen as a manifestation of a social past has been transformed into an a-historical view of a dilated present. In the wash of a generalized skepticism, the broad synthesis has given way to multiple yet restricted points of view and semantic games. From the post-modern perspective, the eclipse of humanism has resulted in a structuralist deconstruction of historicity which came to dominant the social sciences in the 1960s. In spite of their differences, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida promoted closed systems abstracted from subjective considerations. The social logic they unmasked was limited to a description of automatic reflexes. Social history, under the influence of the third generation of the Annales, has abandoned its founders desire for synthesis and globality in favor of an eclectic, fragmented kind of historiography. Will the appropriation of structuralism by the present avant-garde of historians lead to their victory or to the dilution of their identity ? Has Claude Lévi-Strauss' L'Homme Nu slipped into the historian's territory in order to unclothe him ? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1990_num_95_1_2461 |
