Summary
Francois Furet: Workshop of History
In relation to the social sciences, history has the advantage of antiquity and legitimacy, and its recent renewal has not invalidated its properties. It remains a science that is inseparable from the nation, which is its essential ingredient; it retains its rules, customs, chairs, scientific societies, which create a common language and professional consensus... After all, it still has the nation in mind, even if it looks at its past from a different angle than before, thus illuminating the national social. That's why its institutional roots and its radiation on the educated public have never been so strong, no matter how temporary the problems represented by the growing obscurity of its field in secondary education.
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