Philosophy of History After Hayden White

Herausgeber: Doran, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

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 The volume also features a previously unpublished essay by White, which offers a concise overview of his later thought, and a "Comment" written specifically for this volume, in which White revisits the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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781474248860
• ISBN-10: 1474248861
• Artikelnr.: 42234091

Autorenporträt

Robert Doran is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester, USA. He is the author of The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant and the editor of The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007, by Hayden White, and Mimesis and Theory, Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005, by René Girard.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Note \ List of Contributors \ List of Illustrations \
Introduction: Choosing the Past: Hayden White and the Philosophy of History
Robert Doran \ 1. History as Fulfillment Hayden White \ 2. A Cognitivist
Approach to Tropology F. R. Ankersmit \ 3. Deliver Us from A-Historicism:
Metahistory for Non-Historians Mieke Bal \ 4. Hayden White's Hope, or the
Politics of Prefiguration Karyn Ball \ 5. Hayden White and Me: Two Systems
of Philosophy of History Arthur C. Danto \ 6. Uneven Temporalities /
Untimely Pasts: Hayden White and the Question of Temporal Form Harry
Harootunian \ 7. Hopeful Monsters or, The Unfulfilled Figure in Hayden
White's Conceptual System Hans Kellner \ 8. Rhetorical Theory / Theoretical
Rhetoric: Some Ambiguities in the Reception of Hayden White's Work
Gabrielle M. Spiegel \ 9. Hayden White and Non-non-Histories Richard T.
Vann \ 10. From the Problem of Evil to Hermeneutic Philosophy of History:
For Hayden White Gianni Vattimo \ 11. Comment Hayden White \ Notes \ Index