Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives

Toews, John E.; Agnew, Jean-Christophe; Hollinger, David A.; Jay, Martin; Jelavich, Peter; LaCapra, Dominick; Kaplan, Steven L.; Megill, Allan; Pocock, J. G. A.; Poster, Mark; Rorty, Richard; Schneewind, J. B.; Skinner, Quentin

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“…One answer found in the literature can be considered but ultimately rejected, Giuseppina D'Oro's ''The Ontological Backlash: Why did without exaggeration that until almost 1965 the critical philosophy of history was the controversy over the covering law model.''' (Vann, 1987, p. 2) 6 I have in mind Ian Hacking, particularly his important and critical works (1993) and Toews (1987). Apart from philosophy, those who do receive extensive discussion for their historicizing turns, e.g., Hayden White and Michel Foucault, offer some (in White's case) or none (so far as I know with Foucault) acknowledgment of any influence by or credit to Kuhn.…”

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The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Roth

2013

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Roth

2013

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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“…For historiographical discussions of empirical objectivity and linguistic relativity seeJay 1982 andToews 1987. A more recent contribution looking through a different lens is offered byRoth 2007. …”

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Historicism in Pragmatism: Lessons in Historiography and Philosophy

Koopman

2010

Metaphilosophy

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Pragmatism involves simultaneous commitments to modes of inquiry that are philosophical and historical. This article begins by demonstrating this point as it is evidenced in the historicist pragmatisms of William James and John Dewey. Having shown that pragmatism focuses philosophical attention on concrete historical processes, the article turns to a discussion of the specific historiographical commitments consistent with this focus. This focus here is on a pragmatist version of historical inquiry in terms of the central historiographical categories of the object of historical inquiry and mode of historical periodization. After describing the basic historiographical consequences of pragmatism's historicism, the article moves to a discussion of the philosophical results of this historicism. The focus here is on the role that historical inquiry can play in the general philosophical perspective of pragmatism as well as on some recent texts that exemplify the dual pragmatist commitment to philosophy and history.

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“…Has the theory of linguistic density and complexity of texts, contexts, and their apparently circular relationships outrun its possible utility as either a clarification of, or guide for, historiographical practice?" 10 The issue is ineluctably about referentiality and empiricism. Ankersmit acknowledges: "It is true that neither histori[ci]sm nor even postmodernism will or can deny that history is an empirical discipline in which historical reality, however conceived, is described or represented on the basis of empirical data."…”

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“…20. Ankersmit adverts to White especially in the Introduction to History and Tropology (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19), but White's influence is decisive and acknowledged throughout. For White see not only Metahistory (Baltimore, 1973), but the more radical developments in Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore, 1987).…”

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Ankersmit's Postmodernist Historiography: The Hyperbole of “Opacity”

Zammito

1998

History and Theory

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Ankersmit's articulation of a postmodern theory of history takes seriously both the strengths of traditional historicism and the right of historians to decide what makes sense for disciplinary practice. That makes him an exemplary interlocutor. Ankersmit proposes a theory of historical "representation" which radicalizes the narrative approach to historiography along the lines of poststructuralist textualism. Against this postmodernism but invoking some of his own arguments, I defend the traditional historicist position. I formulate criticisms of the theory of reference entailed in his notion of "narrative substance," of his master analogy of historiography with modern painting, and finally of his characterization of historical hermeneutics. In each case I find him guilty of the hyperbole which he himself cautions against. While it is true that historical narratives cannot be taken to be transparent, in taking them to be opaque Ankersmit puts himself in an untenable position. Finally, Ankersmit seeks to buttress his theoretical case by an interpretation of the new cultural historical texts of authors like Davis and Ginzburg. While this is a concreteness heartily to be welcomed in philosophers of history, I cannot find his construction of this new school's work plausible.In History and Tropology, a collection of his most important essays over the last decade, Frank Ankersmit presents a very coherent and ambitious argument for the emergence not only of a new historiographical theory but of a concomitant practice which signals the rise of postmodernism within the discipline. 1

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Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives

Cited by 147 publications

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The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Historicism in Pragmatism: Lessons in Historiography and Philosophy

Ankersmit's Postmodernist Historiography: The Hyperbole of “Opacity”

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