Dessine-moi l'histoire: évolution de la philosophie historique

Petit survol bien intéressant dans le New York Times grâce à l'éclairage du professeur de philosophie Crispin Sartwell. L'histoire se répète-t-elle? Si oui, selon quel modèle? Des explications à "géométrie variable"!!

 "The fracturing of global alliances and the rise of hard-right movements like those in Hungary, Brazil and the United States have caused many of us to question the inevitability of what we generally call progress. Ecological disasters like the California wildfires, plausibly connected to climate change and suburban development, raise the specter of a human history moving inexorably toward self-destruction.

 The philosophy of history, which flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries and has enjoyed periodic revivals in the hands of thinkers like Arthur Danto and Francis Fukuyama, set itself the remarkably ambitious project of describing the forces that shape human events: history’s structure, its direction, its aim, its point and even its end. There are good reasons to be skeptical of such a project, which we might associate above all with the names Marx and Hegel, and it is possible that history has no coherent shape or direction, or many. It may be, too, that the shape of history depends on our decisions and not on impersonal forces. But the philosophy of history is also a seductive project because, among other things, it seems to promise an understanding — even an approximate one — of what might happen next."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/opinion/how-would-you-draw-history.html