Abstract

Ever since event became an 'epochal' word, it has been preoccupying today's phenomenologists' as well as historians' minds. How to explain this convergence? Having analysed (in the first section) the status ascribed to the event in phenomenology, one has next to consider it within contemporary historiography (second section). Finally an efforthas to be made in order to posit the shared though largely implicit question to which phenomenologists and historians give divergent answers (third section). As a hypothesis it is proposed that both are related to the event as to a phenomenon and that their opposition stems from the position they adhere where being is concerned