The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge

• Main Author: Mandelbaum, Maurice (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: History of Western philosophy; History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
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Originally published in 1977. In this major work, an overview of the structure of historical writing, Maurice Mandelbaum clarifies some of the problems concerning the nature of history as a discipline, of what constitutes explanation in history, and whether historical knowledge is as reliable as oth...