The exemplifying past : a philosophy of history / Chiel van den Akker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akker, Chiel van den, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-04-078109-8

1-003-70609-6

1-04-079742-3

90-485-3789-4

9781003706090

OCLC:

1052613232