Meaning, truth, and reference in historical representation
By: Frank Ankersmit
Edition: Licensed ed.
Publisher: Leuven Uiversity Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789058679147
Subjects: History; Philosophy; Historiography
Description: Co-edition with Cornell University Press. Frank Ankersmit is the author of many books and essays on the theory of history. In this work he provides, for the first time, a systematic account of his understanding of the nature of historical writing. This rehabilitation of historicism will surprise many, as will the way in which Ankersmit goes about it. Ankersmit argues that the historicist account of historical writing (from Herder, via Ranke and Humboldt, to Dilthey) is correct but needs to be translated from its original romanticist vocabulary into a more modern philosophical idiom. This translation, he maintains, 'reveals the basic truths about the nature of the past itself, how we relate to it, and how we make sense of the past in historical writing.'
Notes: First published 2012 by Cornell University Press.
Table of contents: title: Historicism; title: Time; title: Interpretation; title: Representation; title: Reference; title: Truth; title: Meaning; title: Presence; title: Experience (I); title: Experience (II); title: Subjectivity; title: Politics.