Revue de synthèse

The journal Revue de synthèse was created by Henri Berr in 1900 under the title Revue de synthèse historique. It has had a variety of editorial partners since its creation. It is currently published in paper and electronic version by the Springer Verlag publishing company in Paris.

In 1900, founded the journal Revue de synthèse historique to respond to abuses of learning and compartmentalization among disciplines. A venue for interdisciplinary exchanges, particularly between philosophers and historians and between geographers and sociologists, the journal quickly gained legitimacy in the field of scholarly journals and wielded considerable influence in the emergence of a new history that was expressed with the creation of the encyclopaedic collection L'Évolution de l'Humanité run by Henri Berr himself and by Lucien Febvre, and then with the creation, in 1929, of by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch. The Journal has been published under several series:

From 1900 to 1913, the first of these was an expression of Henri Berr's initial project (see the program published in 1900).

After ten years (see the overview written in 1910) and in tandem with the creation of the collection L'Évolution de l'Humanité, the second series, published from 1913 to 1930, pursued the same objectives as Revue de synthèse historique (see the notice for the new series in 1913) and broadened them to include debates that were then surrounding reforms in the mathematical and physical sciences, philosophy and the history of science, and the development of new approaches to social sciences. The Journal became the mouthpiece of the Foundation “Pour la science” and of the Centre international de synthèse, created in 1925 by Henri Berr

Some years later, it would be transformed into a third series, published from 1931 to 1985, entitled Revue de synthèse (see “Au bout de trente ans”, 1931). It is still published under this title today. Its change of direction in 1931 was contemporary with the creation of Annales. From this point on, Revue de synthèse welcomed pieces on philosophy, the history of science and the social and human sciences whereas the new journal looked at economic and social history. It became one of the vehicles for the spread of the logical empiricism of the Vienna Circle in the French language. Robert Bouvier, the Swiss philosopher acted as an intermediary with Otto Neurath, translating his texts and maintaining a correspondence with him.

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