期刊名称：European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
电子版ISSN：2036-4091
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：2
出版社：Associazone Pragma
摘要：Based at the EHESS in Paris, Simona Cerutti and Yves Cohen are among today’s mostauthoritative advocates of a “pragmatic” or “pragmatist” approach to historical research.By these terms we mean both a focus on the practices of actors as an object of study, and amethodological concern for the ways the actors themselves justify those practices on the levelof theory. The way “histoire pragmatique” has drawn on classical philosophical Pragmatismwill be at the centre of this interview.Cerutti’s area of specialization is the history of modern Italy. In particular, she has studiedthe genesis of social groups and the transformation of the understanding of justice in Piedmont,with a focus on the link that Ancien Régime societies established between the actual possessionof a status and its theorization. Her two most recent books are Giustizia sommaria. Pratiche eideali di giustizia in una societè di Ancien Régime (Milan 2003), and Etrangers. Étude d’unecondition d’incertitude dans une société d’Ancien Régime (Paris 2012).Yves Cohen is a historian of the twentieth century. His research has been principally devotedto a comparative investigation of the 20th Century’s passion for leadership and commandin different geographical contexts. In his Le siècle des chefs. Une histoire transnationale ducommandement et de l’autorité (Paris 2013) he compares Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s Germanyto the liberalism and the development of Taylorism in France and America, from the viewpointof intellectual history and from that of a history of practices. He recently published Histoirespragmatiques (Paris, 2016) with Francis Chateauraynaud.The interview was conducted in French and later translated by Roberto Gronda and TullioViola.
