这本书是对西方传统史学的颠覆性作品之一。作者系统提出了语言结构及其限制对历史学的影响，以及后现代思潮对此的理解与批评。在此基础上，作者与1995年完成了另一力作《历史的新哲学》（与人合著）。今天重新审视西方史学传统时，这是一把带刃的钥匙。

This book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, it argues that the traditional semantic apparatus of meaning, truth, and reference that we use f...(展开全部)

安克斯密特（Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit），荷兰人，1945年生，现任格罗宁根大学思想史与史学理论教授，当代最著名的历史哲学家之一。主要研究领域是美学、历史哲学和政治哲学，著述多种并被翻译为十几种语言。 主要著作有： 《叙述的逻辑》（1983） 《历史与转义》（1994） 《美学的政治学》（1997） 《历史表现》（2001） 《政治表现》（2001） 《崇高历史经验》（2005）

Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning...(展开全部)

弗兰克•安柯斯密特（1945— ），格罗宁根大学观念史和历史哲学教授。1983年出版《叙述的逻辑：史家语言的语义分析》，1986年当选荷兰皇家人文和科学院院士，2007年创办《历史哲学杂志》。发表过多部历史哲学论著，包括《历史表现》《政治表现》《历史与喻义》《美学政治》《崇高的历史经验》等。.

In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romant...(展开全部)

弗兰克•安柯斯密特（1945— ），格罗宁根大学观念史和历史哲学教授。1983年出版《叙述的逻辑：史家语言的语义分析》，1986年当选荷兰皇家人文和科学院院士，2007年创办《历史哲学杂志》。发表过多部历史哲学论著，包括《历史表现》《政治表现》《历史与喻义》《美学政治》《崇高的历史经验》等。.

In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romant...(展开全部)

In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In thi...(展开全部)

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigoro...(展开全部)