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Hayden White

Metahistory

The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4214-1560-4
  • EAN: 9781421415604
  • Produktnummer: 17416413
  • Verlag: J. Hopkins Uni. Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.2 cm 657 g
  • Auflage: 40th Anniversary edition
  • Gewicht: 657

Über den Autor


Hayden White is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford University, and professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of books published by Johns Hopkins, including Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, and Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.

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