Philosophy of history after Hayden White / edited by Robert Doran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doran, Robert, 1968- editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in american philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, Hayden V., 1928-.

White, Hayden V.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature. Representing a variety of disciplines and approaches, the contributions to this volume testify to the far-reaching effects and significance of White's philosophy of history. Individual essays relate White's ideas to contemporary art, cognitive studies, Heideggerian hermeneutics, experimental history, Kant's transcendental philosophy, analytic philosophy of history, Marxist cultural theory, the Kantian sublime, and American academic historiography. A substantial introduction by the editor traces the genesis of White's philosophy of history, situating it with respect to both the Anglo-American and Continental traditions. The volume also features a previously unpublished essay by White, which offers a concise overview of his later thought, and a "Comment" written specifically for this volume, in which White revisits the question of the philosophy of history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: choosing the past : Hayden White and the philosophy of history / Robert Doran

History as fulfillment / Hayden White

A cognitivist approach to tropology / F.R. Ankersmit

Deliver us from a-historicism : metahistory for non-historians / Mieke Bal

Hayden White's hope, or, The politics of prefiguration / Karyn Ball

Hayden White and me : two systems of philosophy of history / Arthur C. Danto

Uneven temporalities/untimely pasts : Hayden White and the question of temporal form / Harry Harootunian

Hopeful monsters, or, The unfulfilled figure in Hayden White's conceptual system / Hans Kellner

Rhetorical theory/theoretical rhetoric : some ambiguities in the reception of Hayden White's work / Gabrielle M. Spiegel

Hayden White and non-non-histories / Richard T. Vann

From the problem of evil to hermeneutic philosophy of history : for Hayden White / Gianni Vattimo

Comment / Hayden White.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474248860

1474248861

9781441148223

1441148221

9781472548177

1472548175

9781441147479

1441147470

9781441145536

1441145532

OCLC:

839862526