Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
Historical material interweaves various levels of reality, making it essential to first clarify the polysemy of the concept of « historicity » before its application. This article aims to disentangle these intrinsically plural and intertwined forms, adopting a three-part approach. In the first secti...
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| Language: | English |
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2024-12-01
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| Series: | Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/14914 |
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| Summary: | Historical material interweaves various levels of reality, making it essential to first clarify the polysemy of the concept of « historicity » before its application. This article aims to disentangle these intrinsically plural and intertwined forms, adopting a three-part approach. In the first section (I), three main senses of historicity are differentiated: (I.1) historicity as historical material (object), (I.2) as historicization (cognition), and (I.3) as a socialized experience of time, encompassing both a temporalization framework and a domain of agency for actors. This clarification will then allow us (II) to highlight certain current limitations, particularly the reduction of historicity to mere microsociological « agency ». This trend is diagnosed here as a cognitive bias rooted in contemporary democratic normativity and as a result of an overly « narrow » concept of historicity within the social sciences. To counterbalance this reductionism, the article ultimately argues (III) for re-anchoring the notion of historicity in an « expanded » anthropology that could foster greater interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities and social sciences. |
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| ISSN: | 1958-5772 |