Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Halbwachs, an approach to their historical formation

Abstract

The premises that Maurice Halbwachs will make in reference to memory will make it possible to reveal to what extent intellectual history is the guardian of History itself (Namer, 2007). Maurice Halbwachs was born in Reims, a city located in the northwest of France in 1877, the son of a German professor. Dying without being able to know his legacy, Halbwachs meant one of the most important characters in the world of sociology and the philosophy of history (Namer, 2007). In France, at the beginning of the 20th century, the so-called "Solidarity movement" allowed the Third Republic to be founded on the solidarity of the wise and the proletariat, in the face of the rise of the bloody monarchy and the Church (Namer, 2007). From here, the idea of verifiable history will start (Namer, 2004).