The exemplifying past: a philosophy of history

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 thesi...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung: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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Machine generated contents note - 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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (157 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048537891
DOI:10.1017/9789048537891

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