THE CONTENT OF THE NARRATIVE
Journal: History and Theory
Year: 2025

ABSTRACT In The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History , Chiel van den Akker presents a compelling argument for understanding historical narrative as an instrument of historical cognition rather than as a literary device or an artifact. In the first part of this review essay, I present and explicate van den Akker's sophisticated and lucid account of the content of the narrative as that which comes into view when we adopt the thesis (or perspective) embodied in the composition of the narrativ