Beyond historical relativism Merleau-Ponty and Sartre confronted with Aron

This text analyses Sartre and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies of history through the prism of their relationship toward historical relativism. Historical relativism (embodied by Raymond Aron) appears somewhat as the spontaneous philosophy of thinkers of their generation and as a permanent temptation for their own understanding of history. Throughout their work, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty strive to elaborate a conception of history, which is able to overcome historical relativism.