The Necessity of Historicism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4864175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Ankersmit (University of Groningen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-240 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Philosophy of History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1872-261X • E-ISSN: 1872-2636 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187226310x509547 |
| OpenAlex | W2125147419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Rankean historicism is ordinarily seen nowadays as an outdated nineteenth century fashion and that we could not possibly tolerate in our modern intellectual homes. In opposition to this common wisdom I argue that historicism - i.e. the claim that the nature of a thing is to be found in is history - is no less true for all writing of history as it was in the days of Ranke. So Ranke was right, after all. I shall argue my untimely thesis by focusing on the historian's language and by insisting that all the claims made by historicists such as Ranke make eminently sense if read as claim not about objects having existed in the past itself but about the language used by historians in their attempt to account for the past
Art · Epistemology · Historicism · Linguistics · Literature · Medieval history · New Historicism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2017 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |