Ricoeur és a braudeli "hosszú idő" problémája - Ricoeur and the Questions of the Braudelian Longue Durée
In his structural theory of history the French historian, Fernand Braudel breaks the tradition of the narrative historiography. He supports achronological thematic approaches and emphasizes the influence of anonymous forces instead of ‘prominent individuals’. He nuances the traditional history of e...
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Belvedere Meridionale LTD.
2014-09-01
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| Summary: | In his structural theory of history the French historian, Fernand Braudel breaks the tradition of the narrative historiography. He supports achronological thematic approaches and emphasizes the
influence of anonymous forces instead of ‘prominent individuals’. He nuances the traditional history of events, the short time span
which described impressive, but evanescent events. He analyses economic, social and mental structures (the slow-moving
long time span), instead of focusing on public life in the
narrow sense of the word.
The French thinker, Paul Ricoeur interprets the history and the historicalness of the human being in terms of phenomenology and the existential philosophy. He does not reject the notion of the longue durée, but he redefines it. He criticizes Braudel for considering the geographical time instead of the lived time as the basis of the long time span. Ricoeur’s innovation is the following: he treats the long time span in close connection with the temporality of the world of the action. He stresses that events are not important in themselves; they become significant if they are integrated into a larger, teleological unity, and if they are able to transform certain structures for the long term.
According to Ricoeur even Braudel could not break the narrativity of historiography as a historian. Braudel isunderstands himself: he does not reflect on the momentum that his most famous work, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, outlines a quasi-plot. As the closing passage of this plot Braudel describes an event, the death of the Spanish king which is the decisive factor in the collapse of a structure. |
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| ISSN: | 1419-0222 2064-5929 |