BOOKS - Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Author: Hayden White
Year: November 1, 1973
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 52 MB
Language: English
Year: November 1, 1973
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 52 MB
Language: English
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 might be.In pursuing his thesis, White provides a book that will be of interest to philosophers as well as historians. He explicates the styles of such historians as Michelet, Ranke, Tocueville, and Borchardt and of such philosophers of history as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Croce.