| Summary: | During the XXth century, the idea to build an impersonal history attracted many historians. This historiographical thread coming from the end of the previous century was expressed by Karl Lamprecht and François Simiand who were against the biographical and chronological approach. It was soon resumed by numerous social historians, who were traditionally more interested to the collective dimension of the historic experience. In polemic with the sociologist George Gurvitch, who had distinguished eight kinds of temporality, Fernand Braudel supported the idea that history should throw a “unitarian white light” on the past. Against this view on history, I analyze the reflections of certain authors, such as Herder, Dilthey, Kracauer, Ricoeur, who revealed the plurality −spatial and temporal− of the historical world since the eighteenth century
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