Ankersmit A. History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 0520080459; ISBN13: 978-0520080454."The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challenge. Responding to the work of Hayden White, Arthur Danto, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, he examines such issues as the difference between historical representation and artistic expression, the status of metaphor in historical description, and the relation of postmodernism to historicism. Ankersmit's fluent grasp of European thought and his ability to incorporate concepts from literary theory, art history, the philosophy of science, and political thought into his analyses assure that this collection will interest readers throughout the humanities.Introduction: Transcendentalism and the Rise and Fall of MetaphorSix Theses on Narrativist Philosophy of History
The Dilemma of Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of History
The Use of Language in the Writing of History
Historical Representation
The Reality Effect in the Writing of History: The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology
Historiography and Postmodernism
Historism and Postmodernism: A Phenomenology of Historical Experience