Historiographic representations of Fernand Braudel's intellectual heritage

The purpose of the article is to characterize the main representations of Fernand Braudel's intellectual heritage revealed in modern historiographic studies. The specific objectives of the study are to determine the main ideological vectors of these appeals: to the historical studies of Braudel; to his experience as an organizer of an institutional network affiliated with the Annales movement; the role of Braudel in organizing international academic cooperation while maintaining the predominant role of history; the contemporary perception of Braudel's methodological oeuvre within the framework of his multiple regimes temporalities “cultural areas” concepts. Sources and research materials applied in the article are represented by the works of Fernand Braudel himself and a number of his contemporaries, as well as scientific articles and monographs in French, English and Russian languages of the 1988-2018 years edition, resorting to his intellectual biography in different contexts. The methodological basis of the article are the problem-chronological and metahistorical approaches. Thus, the article forms the profile of Western historical thought modern appeals to the intellectual biography of the outstanding French historian Fernand Braudel. The author identifies the main research angles, within which the heritage of the founder of “global history” remains on high demand in the XXI century. The first of them is caused by the fragmentation of the problem field and the excessive specialization of historical scholarship while Braudel acted as a brilliant organizer of interdisciplinary initiatives under the leadership of history. Main conclusions: 1. The experience of Fernand Braudel as the organizer of the most successful institutional network in social sciences under the guidance of historians is of new interest in the era of the “crisis”, when history loses the intradisciplinary unity and social dimension of the “historian's craft”. 2. A new heuristic potential is found in Fernand Braudel's “global history” project, a logical continuation of which is now declaring both the world-system approach of I. Wallerstein and transnational research initiatives. New possibilities of “Big Data” technologies open up truly boundless prospects for the “long duree” history. 3. The researchers interest to his project of “Area Studies” and to the circumstances of its implementation in academic practice as surely as to the subsequent flowering of regional and cross-cultural history, inspired by its methodology passes through modern publications as an independent perspective. 4. A relatively new issue that has arisen under the influence of modern postcolonial studies is the topic of colonial discourse in the Annales, and its manifestations in relation to non-European regions of the world, including Russia as a “world-economy in itself”.

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