F. R. Ankersmit is professor of intellectual history and historical theory at Groningen University (The Netherlands) John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University David Carr is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy at Emory University Joan Copjec teaches in the English, Comparative Literature, and Media Study departments at the University at Buffalo Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University Thomas R. Flynn is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University Jean-Francois Lyotard until his death in 1998 was one of the leading "Continental" philosophers of his day Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Emory University Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University Allan Megill is professor of history at the University of Virginia Jorn Rusen is president of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (Germany) and professor of general history and historical culture at the University of Witten/Herdecke Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy emerita at Rice University
Introduction
vii
Part 1. Historical Representation
1
(88)
In Praise of Subjectivity
1
(27)
F. R. Ankersmit
Representation, Narrative, and the Historian's Promise
28
(17)
Edith Wyschogrod
Some Aspects of the Ethics of History-Writing: Reflections on Edith Wyschogrod's An Ethics of Remembering
45
(31)
Allan Megill
Prudence, History, Time, and Truth
76
(13)
Arthur C. Danto
Part 2. Postmodernist Challenges
89
(104)
No Tear Shall Be Lost: The History of Prayers and Tears
91
(27)
John D. Caputo
The Tomb of Perseverance: On Antigone
118
(37)
Joan Copjec
The Confession of Augustine
155
(17)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Limits of Ethics and History
172
(21)
Joseph Margolis
Part 3. History and Responsibility
193
(68)
Responsibility and Irresponsibility in Historical Studies: A Critical Consideration of the Ethical Dimension in the Historian's Work
195
(19)
Jorn Rusen
An Ethically Responsive Hermeneutics of History
214
(16)
Rudolf A. Makkreel
Committed History
230
(17)
Thomas R. Flynn
History, Fiction, and Human Time: Historical Imagination and Historical Responsibility
247
(14)
David Carr
Notes on Contributors
261
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