Polish theory of history and metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk : from Hayden White and beyond / Jan Pomorski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomorski, Jan, author.

Series:

Routledge Approaches to History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Topolski, Jerzy--Influence.

Topolski, Jerzy.

Pomian, Krzysztof--Influence.

Pomian, Krzysztof.

Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962---Influence.

Tokarczuk, Olga.

White, Hayden V., 1928-2018--Influence.

White, Hayden V.

History--Methodology.

History.

History--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]

Language Note:

Translated from Polish, but not previously published. Original title unknown.

Summary:

"This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analyzing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White. By deconstructing and reconstructing contemporary theories of history, this research is a unique contribution to the fields of historiography and the philosophy of history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Translators' Foreword

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1: Jerzy Topolski: From the methodology of history to the theory of historical narrative

I The first period: between analytical philosophy of history and Marxism

1 Jerzy Topolski's path to the methodology of history

2 Within the circle of the Poznań School of Methodology

3 Topolski's Marxism

II Jerzy Topolski's Theory of Historical Knowledge as the philosophical and methodological background of history practised as a social science

1 The specificity of Topolski's theoretical language

2 Science as an object of methodological reflection

3 The ideal of historical science: theoretical and explanatory history

4 How to practise the methodology of history?

III Topolski's cognising culture of the 1990s

IV Jerzy Topolski's New Methodology of History

A selected bibliography of Jerzy Topolski's works

Chapter 2: Historicity of the being: Krzysztof Pomian's theory of history

I Depositary of European values: Sketch for portrait

II Abrasion and sedimentation in the role of roots metaphors in history

III The order of time - the order of history (Pomian's reflection on change in historiography)

IV Krzysztof Pomian's epistemology of history

1 The cognitive status of historical event and historical fact

2 On the way theoretical subjects exist in history

3 Thinking about periodisation as a key to discovering morphogenesis

4 Pomian on the presence and role of fiction in historiographical discourse: between ontological realism and critical realism

V Practising history: a distinction between useful and meaningful as the foundation of historical anthropology.

VI On three ways of experiencing time and on the corresponding historiographical discourses

A selected bibliography of Krzysztof Pomian's works

Books

Articles

Chapter 3: The historical imagination in 21st-century Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Olga Tokarczuk

I Knowing as a historical process

II The role of self-reflection, that is, looking for the pearl

III Literature as representation, cosmos of experiences, and driving force all in one

IV Lector in fabula 2.0: reading as knowing

V How do we know? Olga Tokarczuk's historical epistemology

VI Anima : Is Olga Tokarczuk's cognising culture of any gender?

VII Experience of historicity : Olga Tokarczuk on how to write and understand history

VIII How does History become? An introduction to Olga Tokarczuk's philosophy of history

Bibliography of Olga Tokarczuk's novels

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003393955

1003393950

9781000911992

1000911993

9781000912029

1000912027

OCLC:

1380464172