Anton Froeyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1041353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anton Froeyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anton |
| FAMILY NAME | Froeyman |
| SIGNATURE | FROEYMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Philosophy of History After 1945: A Bibliometric Study
Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different lang…
Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning
The ideal of objectivity and the public role of the historian: Some lessons from the Historikerstreit and the History Wars
In this paper, I attempt to offer some new insights into an age-old question: what is the public usefulness of history and historians? More specifically, I discuss the role of the ideal of the disinterested and objective historian in two different and very important public historical debates: the German Historikerstreit and the Australian History Wars. My analysis is not so much aimed at analysing the outcome of these debates, but rather at the w…
Never the Twain Shall Meet? How Narrativism and Experience Can Be Reconciled by Dialogical Ethics
In this article, I question the unspoken assumption in historical theory that there is a trade-off between language or narrative, on the one hand, and experience or presence, on the other. Both critics and proponents of historical experience seem to presuppose that this is indeed the case. I argue that this is not necessarily true, and I analyze how the opposition between language and experience in historical theory can be overcome. More specific…
Hermeneutics, Life and Dialogue
In this paper, I formulate an existentialist view on the dialogue with the past, based on the philosophy of Martin Buber. This view is meant to supplement the traditional, hermeneutical view on the dialogue with the past. In the first part of this paper, I argue that the traditional hermeneutic view on the dialogue with the past is somewhat restricted. In the work of people such as Schleiermacher, Dilthey or even Gadamer, dialogue is always regar…
Introduction: The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History
In the summer of 2013 the International Network for Theory of History (INTH; http://www.inth.ugent.be)held its inaugural conference in Ghent, Belgium around the central theme of the future of the theory and philosophy of history.1As organizers of this conference we hoped that our initiative would leave some intellectual marks and that the discussions started there would continue and resonate with a broader audience.We were therefore delighted whe…
The Words of History
In From History to Theory, Kerwin Lee Klein writes a history of the central terms of the discipline of theory of history, such as "historiography," "philosophy of history," "theory of history," and "memory." Klein tells us when and how these terms were used, how the usage of some ("historiography" and "philosophy of history") declined during the twentieth century, and how other terms ("theory" and "memory") became increasingly popular. More impor…
Virtues of Historiography
In this paper, I take up Herman Paul’s suggestion to analyze the process of writing history in terms of virtues. In contrast to Paul, however, I argue that the concept of virtue used here should not be based on virtue epistemology, but rather on virtue ethics. The reason is that virtue epistemology is discriminative towards non-cognitive virtues and incompatible with the Ankersmitian/Whitean view of historiography as a multivocal path from histor…
Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia: The presence and the otherness of the past
This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, I give an in-depth comparison and analysis of the theories of Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia, in which I highlight their most important resemblances and differences. What both have in common, is their notion of the presence of the past as a “presence in absence”. They differ, however, with respect to the character of this past and the role representation plays in making it present. Second, I a…
On Lawfulness in History and Historiography
The use of general and universal laws in historiography has been the subject of debate ever since the end of the nineteenth century. Since the 1970s there has been a growing consensus that general laws such as those in the natural sciences are not applicable in the scientific writing of history. We will argue against this consensus view, not by claiming that the underlying conception of what historiography is-or should be-is wrong, but by contend…
Concepts of Causation in Historiography
Historians can use the concept of causation in a variety of ways, each of which is associated with different historiographical claims and different kinds of argumentation. The author shows that, contrary to the usual view, historical narratives are causal (in a specific way), and microhistory can be seen as a response to a very specific causal problem of Braudelian macrohistory
Philosophy of History After 1945: A Bibliometric Study
Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different lang…
Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia: The presence and the otherness of the past
This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, I give an in-depth comparison and analysis of the theories of Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia, in which I highlight their most important resemblances and differences. What both have in common, is their notion of the presence of the past as a “presence in absence”. They differ, however, with respect to the character of this past and the role representation plays in making it present. Second, I a…
On Lawfulness in History and Historiography
The use of general and universal laws in historiography has been the subject of debate ever since the end of the nineteenth century. Since the 1970s there has been a growing consensus that general laws such as those in the natural sciences are not applicable in the scientific writing of history. We will argue against this consensus view, not by claiming that the underlying conception of what historiography is-or should be-is wrong, but by contend…
Introduction: The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History
In the summer of 2013 the International Network for Theory of History (INTH; http://www.inth.ugent.be)held its inaugural conference in Ghent, Belgium around the central theme of the future of the theory and philosophy of history.1As organizers of this conference we hoped that our initiative would leave some intellectual marks and that the discussions started there would continue and resonate with a broader audience.We were therefore delighted whe…
Concepts of Causation in Historiography
Historians can use the concept of causation in a variety of ways, each of which is associated with different historiographical claims and different kinds of argumentation. The author shows that, contrary to the usual view, historical narratives are causal (in a specific way), and microhistory can be seen as a response to a very specific causal problem of Braudelian macrohistory
Concepts of Causation in Historiography
Historians can use the concept of causation in a variety of ways, each of which is associated with different historiographical claims and different kinds of argumentation. The author shows that, contrary to the usual view, historical narratives are causal (in a specific way), and microhistory can be seen as a response to a very specific causal problem of Braudelian macrohistory
Virtues of Historiography
In this paper, I take up Herman Paul’s suggestion to analyze the process of writing history in terms of virtues. In contrast to Paul, however, I argue that the concept of virtue used here should not be based on virtue epistemology, but rather on virtue ethics. The reason is that virtue epistemology is discriminative towards non-cognitive virtues and incompatible with the Ankersmitian/Whitean view of historiography as a multivocal path from histor…
Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia: The presence and the otherness of the past
This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, I give an in-depth comparison and analysis of the theories of Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia, in which I highlight their most important resemblances and differences. What both have in common, is their notion of the presence of the past as a “presence in absence”. They differ, however, with respect to the character of this past and the role representation plays in making it present. Second, I a…
On Lawfulness in History and Historiography
The use of general and universal laws in historiography has been the subject of debate ever since the end of the nineteenth century. Since the 1970s there has been a growing consensus that general laws such as those in the natural sciences are not applicable in the scientific writing of history. We will argue against this consensus view, not by claiming that the underlying conception of what historiography is-or should be-is wrong, but by contend…
Hermeneutics, Life and Dialogue
In this paper, I formulate an existentialist view on the dialogue with the past, based on the philosophy of Martin Buber. This view is meant to supplement the traditional, hermeneutical view on the dialogue with the past. In the first part of this paper, I argue that the traditional hermeneutic view on the dialogue with the past is somewhat restricted. In the work of people such as Schleiermacher, Dilthey or even Gadamer, dialogue is always regar…
Introduction: The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History
In the summer of 2013 the International Network for Theory of History (INTH; http://www.inth.ugent.be)held its inaugural conference in Ghent, Belgium around the central theme of the future of the theory and philosophy of history.1As organizers of this conference we hoped that our initiative would leave some intellectual marks and that the discussions started there would continue and resonate with a broader audience.We were therefore delighted whe…
The Words of History
In From History to Theory, Kerwin Lee Klein writes a history of the central terms of the discipline of theory of history, such as "historiography," "philosophy of history," "theory of history," and "memory." Klein tells us when and how these terms were used, how the usage of some ("historiography" and "philosophy of history") declined during the twentieth century, and how other terms ("theory" and "memory") became increasingly popular. More impor…
Never the Twain Shall Meet? How Narrativism and Experience Can Be Reconciled by Dialogical Ethics
In this article, I question the unspoken assumption in historical theory that there is a trade-off between language or narrative, on the one hand, and experience or presence, on the other. Both critics and proponents of historical experience seem to presuppose that this is indeed the case. I argue that this is not necessarily true, and I analyze how the opposition between language and experience in historical theory can be overcome. More specific…
The ideal of objectivity and the public role of the historian: Some lessons from the Historikerstreit and the History Wars
In this paper, I attempt to offer some new insights into an age-old question: what is the public usefulness of history and historians? More specifically, I discuss the role of the ideal of the disinterested and objective historian in two different and very important public historical debates: the German Historikerstreit and the Australian History Wars. My analysis is not so much aimed at analysing the outcome of these debates, but rather at the w…
Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning
Philosophy of History After 1945: A Bibliometric Study
Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different lang…
Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Historiography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy, History, and Historiography (5 works)