Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit (born 1945, Deventer, the Netherlands) is professor of 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 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).

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• Narrative logic. A semantic analysis of the historian's language, Den Haag, Nijhoff, 1983
• Denken over geschiedenis. Een overzicht van moderne geschiedfilosofische opvattingen, Groningen (Wolters/Noordhoff), 1983, 1986
• Ankersmit FR, The Reality Effect in the Writing of History: The Dynamics of Historiographical Topology, *Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche, 1989.
• De navel van de geschiedenis. Over interpretatie, representatie en historische realiteit, Groningen, Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1990
• De historische ervaring, Groningen, Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1993
• De spiegel van het verleden. Exploraties deel I: Geschiedtheorie, Kampen, Kok Agora, 1996
• De macht van representatie. Exploraties deel II: cultuurfilosofie en esthetica, Kampen, Kok Agora, 1996
• Macht door representatie. Exploraties deel III: politieke filosofie, Kampen, Kok Agora 1997)
• Aesthetic politics. Political philosophy beyond fact and value, Stanford, Stanford/Cambridge UP, 1997
• Ankersmit FR, Historical Representation, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001
• Ankersmit FR, Political Representation, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002
• Sublime Historical experience, Stanford/Cambridge 2005
• 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;

• English Language only Bibliography
• Main Bibliography

[edit] External links

• Academia Vitae faculty website

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