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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy” is “to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed R. G. Collingwood. In this remarkable collection
Tropologies
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Authors: Ryan McDermott
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott a
Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation
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Pages: 279
Authors: Frank R. Ankersmit
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-24 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writ
Historical Representation
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Authors: F. R. Ankersmit
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Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, this book argues that the traditional se
Sublime Historical Experience
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Pages: 510
Authors: F. R. Ankersmit
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Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime histo