Narration and Knowledge

Arthur Danto

Paper, 504 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13823-9
$25.50 / £15.00

May, 2007
Cloth, 504 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13822-2
$75.00 / £44.00

Afterwords: An Introduction to Arthur Danto's Narration and Knowledge (including his Analytical Philosophy of History)

Lydia Goehr

Introduction to the Morningside Edition

Preface to Analytical Philosophy of History

I Substantive and Analytical Philosophy of History

II A Minimal Characterization of History

III Three Objections against the Possibility of Historical Knowledge

IV Verification, Verifiability, and Tensed Sentences

V Temporal Language and Temporal Scepticisms

VI Evidence and Historical Relativism

VII History and Chronicle

VIII Narrative Sentence

IX Future-and Past-Contingencies

X Historical Explanation: The Problem of General Laws

XI Historical Explanation: The Rôle of Narratives

XII Methodological Individualism and Methodological Socialism

XIII Historical Understanding: The Problem of Other Periods

XIV Historical Language and Historical Reality

XV Narration and Knowledge

Danto's Philosophy of History in Retrospective

Frank Ankersmit

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Analytic Philosophy

Series

• Columbia Classics in Philosophy

About the Author

Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University. His books include The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Nietzsche as Philosopher (both published by Columbia University Press), and Art in the Historical Present, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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