Metahistory
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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 &quote;metahistorical element&quote;-essentially serves as a paradigm for what an &quote;appropriate&quote; 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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4214-1561-1
- EAN: 9781421415611
- Produktnummer: 35554308
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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