Aristotle and History Once More

Abstract

This article aims to analyze some questions and developments for the writing of History stemming from the so-called linguistic turn in History. More than re-establishing the paths which define this turn, or circumscribing its outlines, we propose to observe the unsteadiness or the harsh counterattack indicated in the publication of the book Probing the Limits of Representation, edited by Saul Friedländer in 1992, by making a parallel with recent works of Paul Ricoeur and Carlo Ginzburg, and to emphasize their own readings of the classic pieces of Aristotle, the Poetics and the Rethoric, mediated by Hayden White’s reading.