Crise de l’historicité : un défi pour l’historien

Guest Editors: Christian Delacroix, François Dosse, Rossana Lista

Deadline postponement (full paper): June 30, 2019

Ne vivons-nous pas une crise d’historicité qui remet fondamentalement en cause les conditions de l’écriture de l’histoire et de l’expérience historique ? Les mutations en cours autour des thématiques suivantes : histoire globale, histoire-monde, histoires connectées, histoires croisées, après et avec les Subaltern et Post-colonial studies, seraient dans cette perspective les nouvelles modalités d’un régime historiographique adapté à notre modernité.

Dans quelle mesure cette crise de l’historicité reconfigure le rapport dialectique propre à l’histoire entre passé-présent-avenir. Les thèmes retenus pour ce numéro nous semblent être des voies d’accès privilégiées pour questionner et mieux comprendre notre expérience actuelle de l’histoire et nous orienter dans le temps.

Dans ce numéro, nous sommes intéressés par des contributions pouvant provenir d'une multiplicité de domaines (éthique, philosophie politique / théorie politique, philosophie sociale, sociologie, théologie) et nous aider à réfléchir à l'histoire et aux problèmes qu'elle pose. Les sujets possibles incluent (mais ne sont pas limités à) :

 

1. A l’occasion de la disparition de Hayden White, que reste-t-il du Linguistic Turn ?

2 . En finir avec l’européocentrisme : une historicité à parts égales ?

3. Le temps comme nouvel horizon ontologique pour l’histoire ?

4. L’histoire peut-elle se passer de la littérature et la littérature peut-elle se passer de l’histoire ?

5. En quoi le souci de réflexivité accompagne chez les historiens une double montée en puissance de l’historiographie et de la subjectivité historienne ?

6. Ce qu’on appelle « la post-vérité » représente-t-elle un nouveau défi pour les historiens ?

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We are perhaps experiencing a crisis of historicity which will fundamentally challenge how history and historical experiences are written about. Changes around the themes (concepts, fields, approaches) of global history, world history, connected histories, entangled histories, after and with the Subaltern and Post-Colonial Studies, could thus become the new ways of doing history, more closely in tune with the historiographic regime adapted to our modernity.

How far does this crisis of historicity remodel the dialectical relationship between past, present and future which is specific to History? The topics selected for this issue offer an excellent means of clarifying our current experiences of history.

Contributions from a wide range of potential fields (ethics, political philosophy, political theory, social philosophy, sociology and theology) will help elucidate some of the problems that history poses. A non-exhaustive list of possible topics would include:

1. The Linguistic Turn after the disappearance of Hayden White

2. The end of Eurocentrism : historicity ‘in equal parts’?

3. Time as the new ontological horizon for history

4. Can history and literature exist without each other? (The interconnectedness of history and literature)

5. The role of reflexivity in the growth of historiography and historical subjectivity

6. The challenge of 'post-truth' for historians

 

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