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Meaning, truth, and reference in historical representation
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ISBN: 9789058679147 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leuven : Ithaca New York : Leuven University Press ; Cornell university press,

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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.'


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Culture & history digital journal.
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ISSN: 2253797X Year: 2012 Publisher: [Madrid] : Instituto de Historia, CSIC

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