Seminar organized with Romain Bertrand (CERI, Sciences Po-CNRS).
To be a historian is often to prevent oneself from writing, thinking, experimenting (perhaps even hoping) with many forms of history. As a result, the questionnaire is narrowed and the narratives depopulated. Natural or interior, many beings are thus relegated to the bangs of historical prose. It's not a question of regretting these scruples, and even less of pretending to violate them in a casual or wild manner. Undoubtedly, they are part and parcel of the historiographical operation itself, which limits its theoretical ambitions to what can actually be said. But has this always been the case ? Haven't we abandoned part of our dictionary along the way, and beyond the lexicon, a certain ambition to embrace the prose of the world ? Assuming that these impediments, whether necessary or not, are due to a lack of language, this year's seminar also took an experimental form. The aim was not simply to revive the debate between history and literature, beyond the fictional dilemma in which it risks becoming bogged down. The aim was to broaden the conversation to include anthropology and psychoanalysis, as well as all forms of writing about reality, beyond nature and culture.