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The Exemplifying Past : A Philosophy of History / Chiel Akker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) : 1 color plateContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462986619
  • 9789048537891
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901
LOC classification:
  • D16.8 .A59 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048537891

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.

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