Ankersmit, Frank: Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

Frank Ankersmit provides in this book 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. XI,264 Seiten, broschiert (Leuven University Press 2012) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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