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De l’histoire du temps présent à l’histoire des autres.: Comment une discipline critique devint complaisante.

par Lagrou, Pieter
Référence Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire, 118, page (101-119)
Publication Publié, 2013-04-01

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From Zeitgeschichte to the history of others. How a critical discipline became complacent.The years in between the 1970’s and 1990’s form a breaking point in the writing of contemporary history in Western Europe. The history of the « dark years » was characterised by generational revolt, by national withdrawal, cultural demobilisation, a delayed presentism, a combat for transparency and by a civil rights movement for a more open society. This experience is now terminated and the historical discipline finds itself in a radically new situation. Working on the same objects no longer produces the same results nor does it trigger the the same social and political impact. The challenges to national history, the memory competition waged by new and exclusive militant groups, the increasing recourse to legal categories, the competition from other social sciences and the discriminate effects of the digital revolution all call for a thorough rethinking of the role of the historian in the public debate.