Frank Ankersmit

Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit (born 1945, Deventer) is Professor for Intellectual History and Historical Theory at the University of Groningen.

Professor Ankersmit has made contributions to contemporary Historiography, Philosophy of history, and to Historical method through his analysis and use of the concepts of Narrative, Metaphor, and Representation. Ankersmit's volumes on "Historical Representation" (Ankersmit 2001) and "Political Representation" (Ankersmit 2002) for the [http://www.sup.org/browse.cgi?x=series&y=Cultural%20Memory%20in%20the%20Present Cultural Memory in the Present] series for Stanford University Press are examples of his work in these areas.

Ankersmit has also applied the concept of the Effect of Reality proposed by Roland Barthes in his essays "The Reality Effect" and "The Discourse of History" (both in Barthes 1989) to historical analysis to highlight the problems of Textuality in the discipline of History (Ankersmit 1989).

Bibliography

*Ankersmit FR, "The Reality Effect in the Writing of History: The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology", *Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche, 1989.
*Ankersmit FR, "Aesthetic Politics: Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value", *Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
*Ankersmit FR, "Historical Representation", Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001
*Ankersmit FR, "Political Representation", Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002
*Barthes R, "The Rustle of Language", trans' R. Howard, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989

Bibliographical references for Professor Ankersmit's output can be found at the following sites;

* [http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~ewa/Ankersmit_bibliography.htm English Language only Bibliography]
* [http://www.rug.nl/staff/f.r.ankersmit/research Main Bibliography]

External links

* [http://www.academiavitae.org/includes/faculty/ank.php?page=ge Academia Vitae faculty website]