Paul Veyne and the Gap between Trans-Historical Ideas and Verifiable Facts

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TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Paul Veyne and the Gap between Trans-Historical Ideas and Verifiable Facts

Thursday 13 June 2024 is the 94th anniversary of the birth of Paul Veyne (13 June 1930 – 29 September 2022), who was born in Aix-en-Provence on this date in 1930.

Veyne brought the divergent influences of Raymond Aron and Michel Foucault together in his enigmatic vision of the past in which the constitutive imagination changes over time. Veyne formulates his own distinctive linguistic transcendentalism of the kind that Frank Ankersmit critiqued.

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