In this new edition of "The Names of History" (1994), published here under its original title, the focus is on the question of how the ambivalence of history between literary-descriptive historiography and quantitative historical science can be linguistically represented. Rancière refers to the historical perspective of the Annales School, founded in 1929: While the old school of historiography, in the tradition of Jules Michelet, was dedicated to names and events, the ideal of the Annales was to present facts, material civilization, and mentalities in the scientific language of numbers and functions. In his critical engagement with this new history as a science, Rancière examines which linguistic means can establish a new poetics of knowledge that connects both narrative and true discourse.