The Exemplifying Past

A Philosophy of History
0. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6298-661-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. The 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 the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence. Such thesis, the book argues, retroactively becomes concrete in the past under consideration. This book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akker, Chiel van den

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction: Retroaction, Indeterminacy, and Seeing-in 2. Periods and Other Minds 3. Mink's Riddle of Narrative Truth 4. Resemblance, Substitution, Expression 5. Exemplification 6. Danto's End of Art Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Akker, Chiel van den
Dr. Chiel van den Akker is lecturer Historical Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Elementaire Deeltjes - Geschiedenis (Athenaeum 2019) and The Exemplifying Past. A Philosophy of History (Amsterdam University Press 2018).

"https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/cm-van-den-akker">Chiel van den Akker is assistant professor Philosophy of History at the department of Art and Culture, History and Antiquities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.