The exemplifying past : a philosophy of history /

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...

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Autor principal: Akker, Chiel van den, 1974- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv5rf738
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  • Cover; 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