Abstract
Harald Weinrich, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, borrowed the term hodologyfrom Kurt Lewin , later taken up by Sartre, and compared retrochronology and rectochronology in a theoretical and practical clarification that had a strong impact on the symposium's conclusions: reading and learning about the past is necessarily retrochronological, whereas historical thinking can only artificially escape rectochronology ("Reading an aged text from the present to the Middle Ages. Esquisse d'une hodologie à rebours").
