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History and Our Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2024

Extract

Is history at present in a position to sustain the dialogue of our times? Is it not rather, like an album of faded pictures, a curiously anachronistic story for a century infatuated with progress, speed, and productivity?

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1958 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1. "Evénement et historicité," L'Homme et l'histoire, Actes du VIe Congrès des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Français (Paris, 1952), p. 219.

2. On the subject of aesthetic creation see Gaëtan Picon, "L'Esthétique et l'histoire," Diogenes, No. 4, pp. 31-51.

3. Les Maîtres de l'histoire: Renan, Taine, Michelet (Paris, 1895).

4. Introduction aux études historiques (Paris: Hachette, 1897).

5. Cf. Holzwege (Frankfort, 1950), study entitled "Das Weltbild."

6. Origine et sens de l'histoire, trans. H. Naef (Paris, 1954). p. 195.

7. M. Dufrenne and P. Ricoeur, Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence, p. 257.

8. On this problem see the fine article by Heidegger, "Nietzsches Wort Gott ist tot," in Holzwege.

9. Particularly in H. I. Marrou's book, De la connaissance historique (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1954).

10. Cf. A. C. Pigou, "Some Aspects of the Welfare State," Diogenes, No. 7, pp. I-II.