Revue de Synthèse

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 Annales d'histoire économique et sociale by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch.

*" "The journal studies the historically dated cognitive activity of scientists, philosophers, people in power and scholars; it reintegrates the development of concepts and ideas, in the traditional sense of the term, in its genetic environment: the anthropological, linguistic, institutional and social milieu that allows for its expression and distribution.

*" * Source: information about the Journal given to the Centre national du Livre and distributed by its editorial partners.In a context where disciplinary exchanges are undergoing major changes in France and abroad, Revue de synthèse is now planning to play its part by returning in full force to its original mission, at the crossroads between philosophy, history, the sciences and social sciences, helping to form future scholars and intervening more easily on the international scene thanks to its partnership with the scientific publisher Springer Verlag, which dates from 2007.

As a result, since the early 1990s, it has been deliberately encouraging work on the history of science and the intellectual history of the past century, by organizing research days, granting access to its archives at the Institut pour la Mémoire de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), publishing specialized works and digitizing its collection in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The ideas featured in the sixth and seventh series are presented in the bilingual article "Travail de synthèse et diversité des langues/Synthesis work and diversity of languages", which opens the first issue of 2007.

A large part of the publication is reserved for critical reviews, research columns, reports and reader's notes (see the keys to the Journal given by Henri Berr in 1911, 1925, 1931[permanent dead link‍]).