Towards a Rational Historiography: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 79, Part 3)

by Lionel Gossman

This is a print on demand publication. Gossman maintains that underlying the argument that historiography cannot be subsumed under a poetics or a rhetoric (in the sense of a system of purely linguistic or literary tropes) is a larger claim, namely that a wide range of activities, from literary criticism, through legal debate, theology, ethics, politics, psychology, and medicine to the natural sciences, all constitute rational practices, even if there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142238196X
• ISBN13: 9781422381960
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 68 Pages