Research Catalog

Title

Meaning, truth, and reference in historical representation / Frank Ankersmit.

Author

Ankersmit, F. R.

Publication

Leuven : Leuven Uiversity Press, 2012.

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Description

xi, 264 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.'

Subject

• History > Philosophy
• Historiography

Note

• First published 2012 by Cornell University Press.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Historicism -- Time -- Interpretation -- Representation -- Reference -- Truth -- Meaning -- Presence -- Experience (I) -- Experience (II) -- Subjectivity -- Politics.

ISBN

• 9789058679147
• 9058679144

OCLC

779881600

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library