Table of Contents

A. Historical Representation; 1. ""In Praise of Subjectivity"" by F. R. Ankersmit; 2. ""Representation, Narrative, and the Historian's Promise"" by Edith Wyschogrod; 3. ""Some Aspects of the Ethics of History-Writing: Reflections on Edith; Wyschogrod's An Ethics of Remembering by Allan Megill; 4. ""Prudence, History, Time, and Truth."" by Arthur Danto; B. Postmodernist Challenges; 5. ""No Tear Shall Be Lost: The History of Prayers and Tears"" by John D. Caputo; 6. ""The Tomb of Perseverance: On Antigone"" by Joan Copjec; 7. ""The Confession of Augustine"" by Jean-Francois Lyotard; 8. ""The Limits of Ethics and History"" by Joseph Margolis; C. History and Responsibility; 9. ""Responsibility and Irresponsibility in Historical Studies. A Critical Consideration of the Ethical; Dilemma in the Historian's Work"" by Jorn Rusen; 10. ""An Ethically Responsive Hermeneutics of History"" by Rudolf A. Makkreel; 11. ""Committed History"" by Thomas R. Flynn; 12. ""History, Fiction, and Human Time: Historical Imagination and Historical Responsibility"" by David; Carr

About the Author

David Carr is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Thomas R. Flynn is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University.