Ankersmit Representation

The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56103-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy

Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ankersmit, Franklin Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction. A New Vindication of Historicism
1. Premises and Axioms
2. Leibniz and Historical Representation: The Basics
3. Metaphysics, Individuals, Models, and the PBF
4. Signs, Semantics, Meaning, and Relational Statements
5. Historical Knowledge, Facts, Arguments, Maxima and Minima
Conclusion: Nontrivial Circularity
Epilogue. Intensionalism Versus Extensionalism: The Historical Period (Leibniz) and Its Enemies (Davidson)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit is professor emeritus of intellectual history and historical theory at the University of Groningen. The author of numerous books, he founded the Journal of the Philosophy of History.