History and Tropology The Rise and Fall of Metaphor.

""The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy"" is ""to reckon with twentieth-century history,"" claimed R. G. Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward me...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ankersmit, F. R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dublin : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
Historiography.
Histoire > Philosophie.
Historiographie.
historiography.
Historiography
History > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Transcendentalism and the Rise and Fall of Metaphor
  • 1. Six Theses on Narrativist Philosophy of History
  • 2. The Dilemma of Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of History
  • 3. The Use of Language in the Writing of History
  • 4. Historical Representation
  • 5. The Reality Effect in the Writing of History: The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology
  • 6. Historiography and Postmodernism
  • 7. Historism and Postmodernism: A Phenomenology of Historical Experience
  • Index

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