Abstract
Christian Décobert, «A Science of Our Times»: Bon-Joseph Dacier's Report on the History and Ancient Literature Class at the Institut. Although a composite mix, the report signed Bon- Joseph Dacier on the History and Literature Class of the Institut is very consistent. In between philology and philosophy, history is confined to historiography, a science of ancient texts deemed to express reality, without the mediation of any meaning imposed from without. The contribution by Silvestre de Sacy on Oriental Languages and Literatures is in this respect symptomatic of the report as a whole.
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