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Hayden White

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Description:Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's "Metahistory" has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content--which White dubs the "metahistorical element"--essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be.To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing "as writing," "Metahistory" sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious.This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing "Metahistory" and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. In a new foreword, Michael S. Roth, a former student of White's and the current president of Wesleyan University, reflects on the significance of the book across a broad range of fields, including history, literary theory, and philosophy. This book will be of interest to anyone--in any discipline--who takes the past as a serious object of study.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. To get started finding Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's "Metahistory" has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content--which White dubs the "metahistorical element"--essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be.To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing "as writing," "Metahistory" sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious.This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing "Metahistory" and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. In a new foreword, Michael S. Roth, a former student of White's and the current president of Wesleyan University, reflects on the significance of the book across a broad range of fields, including history, literary theory, and philosophy. This book will be of interest to anyone--in any discipline--who takes the past as a serious object of study.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. To get started finding Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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