@ARTICLE{Falkowski_Tomasz_Writing_2010, author={Falkowski, Tomasz}, volume={vol. 40}, pages={81–96}, journal={Historyka Studia Metodologiczne}, howpublished={online}, year={2010}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie}, publisher={Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego}, abstract={In the paper I try to reconstruct the main theoretical assumptions underlying Paul Veyne’s vision of the ancient world that are to be found in his book L’empire gréco-romain. First of all, recalling the opposition between two ways of making the past intelligible: “explication” versus “explicitation”, I show how the French historian uses that second type of historical analyse to reveal some ancient phenomena (i.e. “democracy”, “imperialism”, “soul”, “faith”) in their original and singular forms. Then, I pass to the question of causality and genesis in history. It seems that in Veyne’s book we can distinguish three different “models” of becoming: 1) “time of a project”, 2) “epigenesis” and 3) “discourse effectiveness”. All these fi ndings lead me to the conclusion that Veyne’s writing of history is essentially “essayistic”.}, type={Artykuł}, title={Writing History Today: a Short Analysis of Paul Veyne’s “L’empire gréco-romain”}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/124406/PDF/8_Historyka_40_Falkowski_Jak.pdf}, keywords={Veyne, empire, explication, explicitation, Genesis, causality, epigenesis}, }