Introduction : experience in history and in philosophy -- 1. Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis : the case of Richard Rorty -- 2. From language to experience -- 3. Huizinga and the experience of the past -- 4. Fragments of a history of historical experience -- 5. Gadamer and historical experience -- 6. (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience -- 7. Subjective historical experience : the past as elegy -- 8. Sublime historical experience -- Epilogue : Rousseau and Holderlin
