Fernand Braudel,the great French historian in the 20 th century who has highly enlightened the whole social science studies,brought up geo\|historical structuralism and pluralistic thought on historical time.However,many people criticised the conservative implications in Braudel’s thought.After serious analysis,we find the problems mentioned in those criticisms are directly related to our understanding on history,even related to our attitudes toward life in world.This article attempts to elucidate the characteristics of Braudel’s historical thought,his rational thoughts,the conservative tendencies in his works,as well as the effects they have potentially caused on the readers.By construing a paradox between Braudel’s historical theories and his active historical practice,the article tries to demonstrate what responsibility a historian should undertake to history and reality as a social practioner.
This article, based on the analysis of the concept "history", aims to explain people’s inner motive on history narration. It points out that history is the existence of human being itself. Different people narrate history to meet their own need of realizing the present and planning for the future. This is the basic point of historical narrative possessing personal and social value; also it is a general character of historical narratives of different ages. Through historical narrative, people realize the existence of themselves and society, and gain the right to interpret events in different layer.
