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Exemplifying Past - A Philosophy of History

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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.

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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

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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).


Product details

Authors Chiel Akker, Chiel van den Akker, Chiel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Van Den Akker
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.12.2025
 
EAN 9781041187813
ISBN 978-1-0-4118781-3
No. of pages 158
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

PHILOSOPHY / General, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, History: theory and methods, historical image;narrative;representation;truth

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