Publication

2012 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

70,500 words, Guess

Page Count

282 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivemeaningtruthrefe00anke
  • ISBN-100801450713
  • ISBN-139780801450716
  • ISBN-139780801477737
  • ISBN-100801477735
and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011046935
  • OCLC Control Number761334910
  • Better World Books9780801450716
  • Better World Books9780801477737
  • Open LibraryOL25110062M

Classifications

  • DDC901
  • LCCD16.8 .A6385 2012
  • LCCD16.8.A6385 2012

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.'

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Meaning, truth, and reference in historical representationCornell University Press2012-01-01

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