Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet

This comparative exercise in the history of historiography confronts two books situated at the beginning and the end of the moment mémoriel in the West: L’Invention du quotidien (1980) by Michel de Certeau, Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) by François Furet. By identifying two historians’ uses of “mem...

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Main Author: Daniel Poitras
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Published: Conserveries Mémorielles 2011-04-01
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description This comparative exercise in the history of historiography confronts two books situated at the beginning and the end of the moment mémoriel in the West: L’Invention du quotidien (1980) by Michel de Certeau, Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) by François Furet. By identifying two historians’ uses of “memory” and to what they relate, the author tries less to define an inventory or the contents of memory than to explore the current operations practiced by the historian in order to make the past “act” in the present of the contemporaries that he studies. Instead of thinking memory as a “something” for which it would suffice to identify its characteristics, we will outlined a few characteristics defining how historians use memory, a use that consists less of a theoretical and systematical articulation than of a epistemological sensibility which is itself solidary of a feeling of historicity. Distant in many respects to each other, the books are marked by their contemporaneity, beyond their respective objects and approaches, as such that the temporal articulation done by the historian covers tenuously his own experience of history. Memory, though not the object of neither books, is constantly solicited, either as a vast background (collective memory) or as an explicative principle in order to understand the contemporaries’ actualizations, the influence of their memories and the alchemies that they effectuate between their practices, passions and beliefs. Separated by their objects, the historians François Furet and Michel de Certeau find eventually themselves around the problem of modernity, sending back the comparatist to its own game and to the distance that he has created or abolished between his “objects” and him.
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spelling doaj-art-884ca1b757d448f69dd034587774f6382025-02-05T16:16:51ZdeuConserveries MémoriellesConserveries Mémorielles1718-55562011-04-01Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François FuretDaniel PoitrasThis comparative exercise in the history of historiography confronts two books situated at the beginning and the end of the moment mémoriel in the West: L’Invention du quotidien (1980) by Michel de Certeau, Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) by François Furet. By identifying two historians’ uses of “memory” and to what they relate, the author tries less to define an inventory or the contents of memory than to explore the current operations practiced by the historian in order to make the past “act” in the present of the contemporaries that he studies. Instead of thinking memory as a “something” for which it would suffice to identify its characteristics, we will outlined a few characteristics defining how historians use memory, a use that consists less of a theoretical and systematical articulation than of a epistemological sensibility which is itself solidary of a feeling of historicity. Distant in many respects to each other, the books are marked by their contemporaneity, beyond their respective objects and approaches, as such that the temporal articulation done by the historian covers tenuously his own experience of history. Memory, though not the object of neither books, is constantly solicited, either as a vast background (collective memory) or as an explicative principle in order to understand the contemporaries’ actualizations, the influence of their memories and the alchemies that they effectuate between their practices, passions and beliefs. Separated by their objects, the historians François Furet and Michel de Certeau find eventually themselves around the problem of modernity, sending back the comparatist to its own game and to the distance that he has created or abolished between his “objects” and him.https://journals.openedition.org/cm/822
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Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet
Conserveries Mémorielles
title Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet
title_full Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet
title_fullStr Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet
title_full_unstemmed Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet
title_short Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François Furet
title_sort pratiques historiennes croisees de la memoire et experiences de l histoire dans l invention du quotidien 1980 de michel de certeau et le passe d une illusion 1995 de francois furet
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