Ankersmit on Linguistic Transcendentalism and Historical Experience

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Ankersmit on Linguistic Transcendentalism and Historical Experience Wednesday 20 March 2024 is the 79th birthday of Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit (born 20 March 1945), who was born in Deventer, the Netherlands, on this date in 1945. Ankersmit’s historical thought is enmeshed in contemporary issues and we find him engaging with Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Donald Davidson, Arthur Danto, Hayden White, Erich Auerbach, and Jörn Rüsen, inter alia. His book Sublime Historical Experience sets up a dichotomy between the linguistic transcendentalism of the linguistic turn in historical theory on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the attempt to find or to cultivate sublime (pre-linguistic, non-cognitive) historical experience. Quora: Discord: Links: Newsletter: #philosophy #history #philosophyofhistory #Ankersmit #sublime #HistoricalRepresentation #HistoricalExperience #LinguisticTranscendentalism