Annie Cohen-Solal Translated by Jerome Charyn and the author “There is no point searching for words to describe the details of our catastrophe. . . . In a black and white rectangle with the look of…

Annie Cohen-Solal Translated by Jerome Charyn and the author “There is no point searching for words to describe the details of our catastrophe. . . . In a black and white rectangle with the look of…

François Hartog Translated by Gustavo Ruiz Da Silva “Since always, the real problem of history" to Paul Veyne, the period, this instrument of organization developed by historians, is a myth; myth here means an insufficient but reassuring answer, an inadequate language, a mumbling. Veyne interestingly identifies the “roots of this myth." “The first is corporate defense, the protection of the professional domains.” The second is “the conventions of the profession”: among the “external signs” that validate a historical proposition as scientific is the rule of “not stepping outside one's period”; however, one must also account for the genuine difficulty of “mastering the documentation .

François Hartog Translated by Gustavo Ruiz Da Silva “Since always, the real problem of history" to Paul Veyne, the period, this instrument of organization developed by historians, is a myth; myth here means an insufficient but reassuring answer, an inadequate language, a mumbling. Veyne interestingly identifies the “roots of this myth." “The first is corporate defense, the protection of the professional domains.” The second is “the conventions of the profession”: among the “external signs” that validate a historical proposition as scientific is the rule of “not stepping outside one's period”; however, one must also account for the genuine difficulty of “mastering the documentation .