In Defence of Historicism

Journal of the Philosophy of History 6 (1):111-114 (2012)
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Abstract This paper defends a historicist approach to the history of ideas. A historicist ontology implies that texts have meaning only for specific people, whether these be individual authors, particular readers, or the intersubjective beliefs of social groups. Texts do not have intrinsic meanings in themselves

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