Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Co-edition with Cornell University Press. Selling rights for Europe.For orders outside Europe, contact Cornell University Press A powerful and provocative contribution to the debate about the nature of historical writingFrank 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.' This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Utgivningsdatum2012-05-31
Mått156 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt415 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagLeuven University Press
ISBN9789058679147

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Ankersmit's original account challenges a more traditional paradigm which analyzes historical writing in terms of concepts inherited from the standard philosophy of language. Ankersmit's semantics provides an exceptionally interesting alternative to more conventional solutions. In short, his Meaning, Truth, and Reference in HistoricalRepresentation compels his critics to reconsider their positions and even to wonder whether it all might be the other way. What if, in the end, it is really the case that to understand historical writing we need to abandon the traditional approach and embrace the new perspective offered by Ankersmit? Those who are open to novel ideas and who are willing to question their own assumptions will undoubtedly benefit from reading this book. It will not necessarily make them see historical writing in the way Ankersmit sees it, but I would be surprised, if they found nothing in the book to challenge their own view of history.Eugen ZeleÅˆák, Journal of the Philosophy of History 7 (2013) 244-;256