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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Main Author: Alexandre Escudier
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Language:English
Published: ACEDLE 2024-12-01
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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description 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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Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
historicité
agentivité
historicisation
expérience socialisée du temps
schème de temporalisation
normativité démocratique
title Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
title_full Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
title_fullStr Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
title_full_unstemmed Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
title_short Historicité(s) et niveaux de réalité : essai de balisage conceptuel
title_sort historicite s et niveaux de realite essai de balisage conceptuel
topic historicité
agentivité
historicisation
expérience socialisée du temps
schème de temporalisation
normativité démocratique
url https://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/14914
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