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Akker, Chiel

The Exemplifying Past : A Philosophy of History / Chiel Akker. - 1 online resource (168 p.) : 1 color plate

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. 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.The book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9789462986619 9789048537891

Standard No.: 10.1515/9789048537891 doi

LCCN: 2018483575

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History--Philosophy.
Diachronic.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
HISTORY / General.

Subjects--Index Terms: Historical Image, Narrative, Representation, Truth.

LC Class. No.: D16.8 / .A59 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 901