Political analysis, history and pluralization of historicity models : Elements of reflective epistemology

Abstrak

The article interrogates the contributions of the "historical crossroads of political science" (Y. Déloye) in France, based on the underlying historicity models, through the review of eighteen works published in the course of the last fifteen years. ^**The results of socio-history and historical sociology are highlighted and valued in the first place, to then confront them with the approach advocated by Y. Schemeil. The linear-evolutionary model linked to the genetic procedure is questioned in light of the works of M. Bloch, M. Foucault and M. Dobry. The article concludes by outlining a pluralistic expansion of the models of historicity, relying on both the philosophy of W. Benjamin and the research of EP Thompson, AO Hirschman and J.-C. Kaufmann. The epistemological framework is that of theoretical pluralism without relativism, defended by J.-C. Passeron.