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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Akker, Chiel,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) :; 1 color plate
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048537891; 9783110667318; 9783110606720
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048537891?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chiel Akker.

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.