Er(r)go, wie es ist eigentlich gewesen? History: facts, chronology, objectivism, truth, meaning, ideology, profanum, narration, construct, metaphor, representation, interpretation, memory, reflection, manipulation, myth, fiction, magister vitae. Or rather, and maybe in spite of the above, history is a privilege, which makes it possible to remember who one is (Michel de Certeau), since it saturates us with the continuity of the same and the other, and situates the outside within the space of subjectivity. Only paradoxically history seems to be an eschatological domain: it is death after all, that is the condition of historical discourse; and yet, according to the French thinker, "the dead souls resurge, within the work whose postulate was their disappearance and the possibility of analyzing them as an object of investigation." The dis/em/bodied dead - their ashes - elude their dead objectuality and speak to us through (sub)liminal traces of presence (cf. Ewa Domańska). All the more, then - if the multiplying questions fall into chasms between value and fact, politics and morality, objectivity and selfconscious subjectivism, if attempts at historical epistemology remind us of the work of philistines (Frank Ankersmit), if discourse as representation fails the will to truth - should we perhaps take a detour through the path (road?) that gives priority to ontology. At least, if not for other reasons, because it may lead us safe amongst the dictates of the regime of binarity. The third issue of Er(r)go is the first which is devoted to problems from one thematic area. An important "historical" incentive came from the conference organized in Poznań by the Department of History, called Time, space, and the Evidence of Experience. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Past. Thanks to the collaboration and warm enthusiasm of its animator, Dr. Ewa Domańska, we are able to publish here there papers (by Frank Ankersmit, Georg G. Iggers, Fernando Sánchez-Marcos) delivered at the conference in March 2000. Wojciech Kalaga