Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe - Softcover

White, Hayden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801817617 ISBN 13: 9780801817618

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975

Synopsis

In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be.

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Review:

Metahistory is something more than a study of philosophies of history (although it is that too, and no doubt the most important work in the field since Collingwood): it is also a methodological manifesto, a more sustained argument for a deep-figural hermeneutic than has been worked out anywhere before now.

(Diacritics)

This is a daring, ingenious... tour de force. White has produced a profoundly original 'critique of historical reason.'.

(American Historical Review)

A book that will simply have to be reckoned with by all historians who have the slightest interest in the genesis and forms of historical narrative.

(Journal of Modern History)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0801817617
• ISBN 13: 9780801817618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464