 In his later work Ankersmit concentrates on the issue of historical rationality; his aim then is to establish on what rational grounds historians prefer one representation of the past to another.Leibniz is here his guide as well.Although Ankersmit is often perceived as a postmodernist, his work can also be seen as drawing from the 19th century historian Friedrich Meinecke and as an "An almost neo-Kantian desire to counter the hegemony of science in history and politics".