The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures . As in the...
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden Whiteâs Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surfac...
Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs....
Collingwood and Toynbee: transitions in English historical thought -- Religion, culture, and western civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of history -- The abiding relevance of Croce's Idea of history -- Romanticism, historicism, and realism:...
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaningâits production, distribution, and consumptionâin different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only mean...
Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism.