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The Exemplifying Past : A Philosophy of History /

This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. Point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Akker, Chiel van den, 1974- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Retroaction, Indeterminacy, and Seeing-in; 2 Periods and Other Minds; 3 Narrative Truth; 4 Resemblance, Substitution, Expression; 5 Exemplification; 6 Danto's End of Art; Bibliography; Index