Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography argues that narrativism has made important contributions to the theory and philosophy of historiography but that it is now time to move beyond it to postnarrativism. Much of the theorizing of historiography has focused on defending either absolutist historical realism or relativist postmodernism. Kuukkanen shows how it is possible to reject the truth-functional evaluation of interpretations and yet accept that historiography can be assessed by rational standards. The postnarrativist view maintains that studies of history are informal arguments for theses about the past and that they are always located somewhere between subjectivity and objectivity.
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Kuukkanen, J. M. (2015). Postnarrativist philosophy of historiography. Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography (pp. 1–239). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409874
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