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In this lecture published as an article, Gerhard Krüger inquires into the philosophical problem of history and historicity. Are those amongst Krüger’s contemporaries who admit their own incapacity to overcome a crisis of historicism that radically threatens man’s true being justified to think that history is our most urgent, comprehensive and difficult problem ? If, as is maintained by Krüger, the problem of history is not really as urgent, comprehensive and obscure as it is thought to be, what led contemporary philosophy to exaggerate its importance ? Krüger links back our erroneous estimation of the problem of history to the beginning of modern enlightened philosophy.