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More than any other institution, the museum is preoccupied with time, perpetually creating, contesting, and regaining it. From the collections of ancient art amassed in mid-14th-century Italy to the contemporary galleries without their own collections, the museum has always been a leading force in shaping Western civilization's perceptions of time. After a survey of the history of Europe's museums, the article traces the configurations of temporality that have arisen in different periods. Beginning in the 15th century, museums exhibited recent art alongside classical masterpieces, highlighting the cleavage between new and old. Three and a half centuries later, however, the art of the present was proclaimed a contemporary of the art of the past and the future, a notion upheld in spite of the outpourings of revolutionary pathos. It was in the second half of the 20th century that this synchronizing tendency yielded to the domination of the one and only present, which remains in force today. This new and challenging situation could be a starting point for the reassessment of contemporary museums' role in influencing and realizing social temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article veut analyser comment -- et si -- la pandémie de coronavirus a provoqué un changement dans les temporalités qui traversent notre quotidien. Placée sous le signe d'une urgence qui nous a menés en quelques jours jusqu'à "l'état d'urgence sanitaire", cette suspension des attitudes corporelles ordinaires (dangereuses) et leur remplacement par d'autres (tout à la fois défensives et protectrices) devraient s'opérer, comme il est normal en régime présentiste, instantanément ou presque. Depuis Hippocrate, il revient à la médecine de reconnaître que la maladie a, elle aussi, une temporalité propre. Sous le désordre apparent de la maladie, il y a en fait un ordre que repère l'oeil exercé du médecin : un ordre du temps. Le temps de la pandémie a conduit à l'instauration d'un temps nouveau, celui du confinement: temps sanitaire, puisque le confinement est le seul instrument à notre disposition, dit la médecine, pour retarder, freiner la progression du virus, pour que la courbe exponentielle cesse son implacable ascension. En ce point surgissent d'inévitables conflits de temporalités qui appellent des arbitrages. La question de la nomination de l'événement est centrale. Epidémie, pandémie, oui, mais nous restons dans la sphère de la médecine. La question est de savoir si la crise majeure que traverse le monde est une occasion, un kairos, qui, interrompant les temporalités usuelles du temps chronos, pourrait ouvrir sur un temps nouveau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the thought of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur and French historian Michel de Certeau regarding memory and history. It examines the intrinsic importance of memories, witness accounts, documents, and other testimonies to history. The author differentiates between memory and history, noting that historical knowledge, though dependent on memory, is wholly different from mere remembrance. He also studies Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's theory regarding the uncanny in terms of history and collective memory.

The article discusses the heritage, nature, and place within the discipline of history of the linguistic turn, major development within western philosophy during the twentieth century, with particular focus given to the contribution made to the debate by groundbreaking book "Probing the Limits of Representation," edited by Saul Friedlander. Themes discussed include the consequences of postmodern relativism, the history of western philosophy during the twentieth century, and the study and teaching of history, as well as the work of historians.

The essay explores the role of historians in the forging of identity. In particular, it reflects on how historians should position themselves as memory, heritage, and commemoration compete with history in an identity crisis which the author asserts that society is facing. This crisis is the result of the emergence, during the late 20th century, of a system of historicity based on presentism, according to the author.

Explores the concept of the regime of historicity of ancient and modern times. Details on the idea of creating semantics for historical times; Link between anthropology and history; Accounts on the law that concerns with the preservation of historical and natural monuments.