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The philosophy of historiography looked very different half a century ago. Narrativism is currently the dominant school, but then it was the analytic philosophy of history, whose interests and problems were rather different. In order to appreciate the transition to narrativism and understand the change of perspective that accompanied it, it is instructive to begin with an exploration of the analytic philosophy of history.
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© 2015 Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
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Kuukkanen, JM. (2015). From Analytic Philosophy of History to Narrativism. In: Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409874_2
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