This article poses the problematic of "narrativity", by which Paul Ricoeur sought to emphasize the epistemological specificity of the human sciences while formally distinguishing them from other kinds of narrative, within the framework of Max Weber's sociology. Above and beyond their textual and discursive markers, Weberian narratives are only fully intelligible when understood as a function of Weber's profoundly ambivalent experience of time and historical consciousness. This ambivalence is revealed in the controversy surrounding the role of intellectuals and rationalization processes, and vis-a-vis the paradoxical narratives of the "historical subject", his/her "personality", and his/her «identity».