Heritage has become a very common term in political and cultural discourse, as well as a widely used term in the academic world. Numerous authors have pointed out that everything has become heritage, and expressed concern that such terminological inflation can be seen as a symptom of a new relationship to the present. Based on investigations conducted primarily by French geographers, this paper explores this academic research as revealing a process of "Chronogenesis" (Chronogenèse): in this, scattered elements are embedded into a narrative, creating a discourse characterized by an accumulation of signs and elements that allows a linear conception and representation of the image and time. Inspired by the work of P. Ric?ur on the notion of temporality, this article defends the idea that the language of heritage is emplotted by creating coherence out of heterogeneous elements. This process allows the connection of narratives which make it possible to reconsider a certain unity of the history of mankind in its relationship to the physical world.
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