Pragmatism and Historical Representation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009533577)

No prominent pragmatist philosopher to date has offered us a fully developed theory of history or historical interpretation. Nevertheless, a number of pivotal arguments and suggestions made by the pragmatists appeared to many both insightful and pertinent enough to offer a distinctive promise of a cohesive and distinctive general pragmatist perspective in historical theory. The present contribution is intended to secure some advances in this direction, focusing on the relationships between objectivity and perspective; between representation as an accurate correspondence to reality and the social, cultural sense of representation as being represented and being representative; as well as the relationship between individualizing comprehension and generalizing abstraction in historical contexts.

Author: Serge Grigoriev
ISBN-10: 1009533576
ISBN-13: 9781009533577
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2025
Pages: 78
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d