Ensuring visibility for historians’subjectivity is not enough. This essay advocates subjectivity as a peculiar combination of elements, capable of conveying the inextricably tragic and politically relevant “world’s noise”, to reorder such noise by means of the work of sensory reason, that is to say the ability to rediscover the meaning of one’s own emotions, not in order to evacuate them but to put them to work, to turn them into the fuel of a dynamic of rational, truth-seeking research. The regime of historicity of a history that would acknowledge these sensory elements, is a twofold “presentism”, which seeks to bring together two brands of present, not to assess the truth on a single certain knowledge, but to make each present provide insights into the other-in a somewhat risky bet. This double presentism could be labelled “contemporarism”. It aims to take into account the historical consciousness as a tragical and political consciousness. It points toward a way of intellectualizing the world, whose main function would be infinite and ritual : to soothe the anguish of this tragic condition.