Le moment Ricœur

Abstract

Now is the moment for a real dialogue with philosophy with the historian community thanks to the publication of the major work of Paul Ricoeur, La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli. This is not the first time that Ricoeur has attempted this dialogue with historians since his first intervention in this area goes back 50 years. It wasn't heard by many in those days, the fifties, unpropitious to hybrid epistemologies. His trilogy on time, Temps et récit, came out between 1983 and 1985 and was heard a bit more, but it was kept on the borders, considered as philosophy. In this "time of doubts" and questions by historians on the notions they use daily in their practice : truth, causality, memory, account, time, the time seems to have come to take the measure of Ricoeur's contribution to the historical discipline, especially as he has gone out of his way to read, with his usual rigor, today's historians' works, of which he is an attentive reader.