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Hayden White

Hayden White

Paul, Herman

Hardcover

Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers

PhilosophyHistoriography

ISBN10: 0745650139
ISBN13: 9780745650135
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Aug 8 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core ideas and traces the development of these ideas from the mid-1950s to the present. Starting with White's medievalist research and youthful fascination for French existentialism, Paul shows how White became increasingly convinced that historical writing is a moral activity. He goes on to argue that the critical concepts that have secured White's fame - trope, plot, discourse, figural realism - all stem from his desire to explicate the moral claims and perceptions underlying historical writing. White emerges as a passionate thinker, a restless rebel against scientism, and a defender of existentialist humanist values.

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