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From Narrative History To History as a Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

François Furet
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History is the child of narrative. It is not defined by an object of study, but rather by a type of narration. To say that history studies time means no more than that it arranges all of its objects of study in a temporal framework: to make history is to tell a story.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 23 , Issue 89 , March 1975 , pp. 106 - 123
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Copyright © 1975 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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