Meaning, Truth and Reference in Historical Representation

Frank Ankersmit

ISBN 10: 9058679144 / ISBN 13: 9789058679147

Editore: Leuven University Press Mai 2012, 2012

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Neuware - Co-edition with Cornell University Press. Selling rights for Europe A powerful and provocative contribution to the debate about the nature of historical writing Frank Ankersmit is the author of many books and essays on the theory of history. In this original 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.'.

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• Titolo: Meaning, Truth and Reference in Historical Representation
• Editore: Leuven University Press Mai 2012
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9058679144
• ISBN 13: 9789058679147
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 19 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 426 grammi

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Co-edition with Cornell University Press. Selling rights for Europe.
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A powerful and provocative contribution to the debate about the nature of historical writing

Frank Ankersmit is the author of many books and essays on the theory of history. In this original 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.'

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Co-edition with Cornell University Press. Selling rights for Europe. A powerful and provocative contribution to the debate about the nature of historical writing. Frank Ankersmit is the author of many books and essays on the theory of history. In this original 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.'