La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle
French historians of the second half of the XXe century are more aware than their predecessors that historical research and writing means continuous interaction between past and présent. Most of them have substituted the grammatical présent for the preterit as the basic tense of the narrative. They...
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| description | French historians of the second half of the XXe century are more aware than their predecessors that historical research and writing means continuous interaction between past and présent. Most of them have substituted the grammatical présent for the preterit as the basic tense of the narrative. They pay more attention to trends and long-term phenomena than to short-term events. They are less reluctant to study the most recent past, but this issue remains controversial. Openly or not, chronological story is still the prevailing model, as is the absolute dating system according to the calendar. Historians are careful to avoid arbitrary chronological divisions and they stress that a sequence of events does not imply a relationship of cause and effect between them. Theorical discussions are on-going but, more often than not are the result of encouragement from outside the historical professions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-00766e0663ca4b8cb97b93fc884c9d182025-08-20T02:22:05ZfraADR TemporalitésTemporalités1777-90062102-58782004-01-011809710.4000/temporalites.614La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècleJean LeducFrench historians of the second half of the XXe century are more aware than their predecessors that historical research and writing means continuous interaction between past and présent. Most of them have substituted the grammatical présent for the preterit as the basic tense of the narrative. They pay more attention to trends and long-term phenomena than to short-term events. They are less reluctant to study the most recent past, but this issue remains controversial. Openly or not, chronological story is still the prevailing model, as is the absolute dating system according to the calendar. Historians are careful to avoid arbitrary chronological divisions and they stress that a sequence of events does not imply a relationship of cause and effect between them. Theorical discussions are on-going but, more often than not are the result of encouragement from outside the historical professions.https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/614interaction between past and presentwriting in the present tenseimportance of the narrativerealism of timecriss-crossing of temporalitieslong-term |
| spellingShingle | Jean Leduc La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle Temporalités interaction between past and present writing in the present tense importance of the narrative realism of time criss-crossing of temporalities long-term |
| title | La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle |
| title_full | La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle |
| title_fullStr | La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle |
| title_full_unstemmed | La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle |
| title_short | La construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle |
| title_sort | la construction du temps chez les historiens universitaires francais de la seconde moitie du xxe siecle |
| topic | interaction between past and present writing in the present tense importance of the narrative realism of time criss-crossing of temporalities long-term |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/614 |
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