Forum Debate on Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography

Is narrativism dead or still alive? Have all questions occasioned by the historical text been answered, so that philosophers of history must now turn to other problems? Or did narrativist philosophy of history have its blind spots that now demand their scrutiny? And if the historical text still has its secrets and mysteries, is narrativism capable of dealing with them? Or would we need for this a ‘postnarrativist’ approach? And, if so, what will this new approach look like and what can we expect from it? These are the questions put on the agenda by Kukkanen’s Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography (2015). In this forum debate five scholars (Brian Fay, Eugen Zelenak, Anton Froeyman, Frank Ankersmit and Daniel Fairbrother) comment on Kuukkanen’s book. Pragmatism proves to be an important clue to their findings

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