Hayden V White
Biographic Data
| ID | 260681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hayden V White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hayden V |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE H V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Metahistory
Commentary
Anomalies of Genre
IN THIS COMMENTARY I will consider a topical thread that runs through most of the essays comprising this issue of New Literary History and the one before it. The topic is the relation between history and theory in literary studies. In his contribution to this symposium, Michael Prince cites Ralph Cohen's suggestion that both the notion of (literary) genre and genres themselves appear to be "resistant to theory." Prince goes on to suggest that gen…
Beyond the Cultural Turn
After Philosophy
Tropics of Discourse
Vico Again
Historik
"Vico. A Study of the "New Science
Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's 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 surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content - which White dubs the metahistorical element - essentially serves as a paradigm for what an appropriate historical explanation should be. To …
Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination
Discussions of historicism sometimes proceed on the assumption that it consists of a discernible and unjustifiable distortion of a properly historical way of representing reality. Thus, example, there are those who speak of the particularizing interest of the historian as against the generalizing interests of the historicist. Again, the historian is supposed to be interested in elaborating points of view rather than in constructing theories, as t…
Giambattista Vico, An International Symposium
Foucault Decoded
Note
Giambattista Vico. An International Symposium
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
The Uses of History
The Riddle of History
Great Historical Enterprises
Shapes of Philosophical History . Frank E. Manuel
The Burden of History
For better than a century many historians have found it useful to employ a Fabian tactic against critics in related fields of intellectual endeavor. The tactic works like this: when criticized by social scientists for the softness of his method, the crudity of his organizing metaphors, or the ambiguity of his sociological and psychological presuppositions, the historian responds that history has never claimed the status of a pure science, that it…
Foundations of Historical Knowledge. Morton White
The Later Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
Medieval History
Journal Article Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization, by Norman F. Cantor Get access Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization. By Norman F. Cantor. New York, Macmillan, 1963.—xi, 622 pp. 8.50. Hayden V. White Hayden V. White University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 4, December 1964, Pages 593–597, https://doi.org/1…
Tropics of Discourse
The Burden of History
For better than a century many historians have found it useful to employ a Fabian tactic against critics in related fields of intellectual endeavor. The tactic works like this: when criticized by social scientists for the softness of his method, the crudity of his organizing metaphors, or the ambiguity of his sociological and psychological presuppositions, the historian responds that history has never claimed the status of a pure science, that it…
Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination
Discussions of historicism sometimes proceed on the assumption that it consists of a discernible and unjustifiable distortion of a properly historical way of representing reality. Thus, example, there are those who speak of the particularizing interest of the historian as against the generalizing interests of the historicist. Again, the historian is supposed to be interested in elaborating points of view rather than in constructing theories, as t…
Giambattista Vico. An International Symposium
Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's 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 surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content - which White dubs the metahistorical element - essentially serves as a paradigm for what an appropriate historical explanation should be. To …
From History to Sociology
Foucault Decoded
The Gregorian Ideal and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Anomalies of Genre
IN THIS COMMENTARY I will consider a topical thread that runs through most of the essays comprising this issue of New Literary History and the one before it. The topic is the relation between history and theory in literary studies. In his contribution to this symposium, Michael Prince cites Ralph Cohen's suggestion that both the notion of (literary) genre and genres themselves appear to be "resistant to theory." Prince goes on to suggest that gen…
Giambattista Vico
Commentary
The Later Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
Medieval History
Journal Article Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization, by Norman F. Cantor Get access Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization. By Norman F. Cantor. New York, Macmillan, 1963.—xi, 622 pp. 8.50. Hayden V. White Hayden V. White University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 4, December 1964, Pages 593–597, https://doi.org/1…
The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History
Ibn Khaldûn in World Philosophy of History
It is a distinguishing feature of modern Western historical thought that it has striven self-consciously to free itself from the use of non-historical categories of explanation in order to consitute itself as an autonomous, self-explanatory and self-justifying form of thought. Croce believed this movement to be a late phase of humanism and identified it as the main ingredient in the Western intellectual tradition. In his view, the history of hist…
Pontius of Cluny, theCuria Romanaand the End of Gregorianism in Rome
Scholarly opinion is generally agreed that the order of Cluny reached its apogee during the abbacy of St. Hugh, who ruled from 1049 to 1109, and began its decline as a result of the misrule of his successor, Pontius of Melgueil, abbot from 1109 to 1122. The rule of Pontius' successor, Peter the Venerable (1122-1157), is generally regarded as an attempt to realize two aims: justification of Cluniac monasticism before the criticism of St. Bernard o…
Pontius of Cluny, theCuria Romanaand the End of Gregorianism in Rome
Scholarly opinion is generally agreed that the order of Cluny reached its apogee during the abbacy of St. Hugh, who ruled from 1049 to 1109, and began its decline as a result of the misrule of his successor, Pontius of Melgueil, abbot from 1109 to 1122. The rule of Pontius' successor, Peter the Venerable (1122-1157), is generally regarded as an attempt to realize two aims: justification of Cluniac monasticism before the criticism of St. Bernard o…
Les Moines Blancs
Ibn Khaldûn in World Philosophy of History
It is a distinguishing feature of modern Western historical thought that it has striven self-consciously to free itself from the use of non-historical categories of explanation in order to consitute itself as an autonomous, self-explanatory and self-justifying form of thought. Croce believed this movement to be a late phase of humanism and identified it as the main ingredient in the Western intellectual tradition. In his view, the history of hist…
From History to Sociology
The Gregorian Ideal and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Etudes sur la "Vita Prima" de saint Bernard . Adriaan Hendrik Bredero
From History to Sociology
The English Mystical Tradition . David Knowles The Mediaeval Mystics of England . Eric Colledge
The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History
Medieval History
Journal Article Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization, by Norman F. Cantor Get access Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization. By Norman F. Cantor. New York, Macmillan, 1963.—xi, 622 pp. 8.50. Hayden V. White Hayden V. White University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 4, December 1964, Pages 593–597, https://doi.org/1…
The Later Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
Great Historical Enterprises
Shapes of Philosophical History . Frank E. Manuel
The Burden of History
For better than a century many historians have found it useful to employ a Fabian tactic against critics in related fields of intellectual endeavor. The tactic works like this: when criticized by social scientists for the softness of his method, the crudity of his organizing metaphors, or the ambiguity of his sociological and psychological presuppositions, the historian responds that history has never claimed the status of a pure science, that it…
Foundations of Historical Knowledge. Morton White
The Riddle of History
The Uses of History
Giambattista Vico. An International Symposium
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
Note
Giambattista Vico, An International Symposium
Foucault Decoded
Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's 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 surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content - which White dubs the metahistorical element - essentially serves as a paradigm for what an appropriate historical explanation should be. To …
Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination
Discussions of historicism sometimes proceed on the assumption that it consists of a discernible and unjustifiable distortion of a properly historical way of representing reality. Thus, example, there are those who speak of the particularizing interest of the historian as against the generalizing interests of the historicist. Again, the historian is supposed to be interested in elaborating points of view rather than in constructing theories, as t…
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