Dar voce al morto. Sull’École des Annales, la microstoria e sulla storicità del sapere filosofico

My essay aims to examine some characteristic features of the historio- graphical method of École des Annales and microstoria italiana. I intend to show how these historiographical directions are based on a philosophical considera- tion of the historical object. Through this analysis I wanted to show by differ- ence how philosophy should be understood as historical knowledge and as a genealogical interrogation of the transcendental presupposition of knowledge. Indeed, starting from the Hegelian legacy, it is necessary to question the relation- ship between philosophy and history and the historicity of philosophical knowl- edge itself. However, this does not translate into mere historicism, but requires rethinking philosophical practice itself, historical practice and consequently also the history of philosophy. In the “exception case”, such as to falsify the historical reconstruction, is traced the richness offered by the legacy of the historiographi- cal tradition of microhistory.