Sublime Historical Experience
In 'Sublime Historical Experience', philosopher of history Frank Ankersmit takes up where the famous Dutch historian Johan Huizinga left off. When he saw an exhibition of paintings by Flemish Primitives in 1902, Huizinga was so overwhelmed by a sense of direct contact with the past that it prompted him to think about what really connects us with earlier times. This ‘historical experience’ inspired his great study 'The Waning of the Middle Ages'.
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Original title
De sublieme historische ervaring
Author
Frank Ankersmit
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'Sublime Historical Experience' is a major contribution to the lively international debate about the nature of history as a discipline and the role of experience in our encounters with the past. This is a wonderfully provocative book, ambitious and quirky in all the right ways, written by an internationally acclaimed scholar at the height of his powers.
Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at Berkeley University
Frank Ankersmit
Frank Ankersmit is Professor of Intellectual History and Historical Theory at the University of Groningen. He obtained his doctorate with the thesis 'Narrative Logic' (1983).