The Ethics of Narrative Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007.

"The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing White as a public intellectual. It places White's thought in context, explaining its major themes, sources, and frames of reference, and features five previously...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Hayden
Otros Autores: Doran, Robert, Butler, Judith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Temas:
Historiography.
Literature and history.
History > Philosophy.
Historiographie.
Littérature et histoire.
Histoire > Philosophie.
historiography.
Historiography
History > Philosophy
Literature and history
Essays
Essays.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Editor's Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 1. The Problem with Modern Patriotism
  • 2. Symbols and Allegories of Temporality
  • 3. The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity
  • 4. Catastrophe, Communal Memory, and Mythic Discourse: The Uses of Myth in the Reconstruction of Society
  • 5. Figura and Historical Subalternation
  • 6. The Westernization of World History
  • 7. On Transcommunality and Models of Community
  • 8. Anomalies of the Historical Museum, or, History as Utopian Space
  • 9. Figural Realism in Witness Literature: On Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo
  • 10. The Elements of Totalitarianism: On Hannah Arendt
  • 11. The Metaphysics of Western Historiography: Cosmos, Chaos, and Sequence in Historiological Representation
  • 12. Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse: Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics
  • 13. Exile and Abjection
  • 14. The Dark Side of Art History: On Melancholy
  • 15. Against Historical Realism: A Reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
  • Index

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