LE FIGARO. - What inspires the historian that you are this singular period that we are going through?
Hélène CARRÈRE D'ENCAUSSE. - I note that, faced with an immense collective tragedy, we are plunged in fear and disarray and this is natural, but also that we see this tragedy as an unprecedented event which could not, which should not have happened in the world as we see it, and we are therefore particularly powerless in the face of that for intellectual and moral reasons. First of all we live and look at this tragedy in the immediate future without replacing it in the long duration of human history. We live in the present, we ignore history and therefore no longer know that history is tragic.
In a way, we have integrated the discourse of Francis Fukuyama, we think that the story is over, that the time of misfortunes is over, that it has given way to a present that each one masters on his own account, which reflects his alone
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