Hayden White

Polity (2011)
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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. This innovative introduction will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities, and help develop a critical understanding of an increasingly important thinker

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The Italian Difference and the Politics of Culture.Hayden White - 1984 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 10 (1):117-122.
Christopher Dawson and the Catholic Idea of History.Dermot Quinn - 1998 - The Chesterton Review 24 (3):329-349.
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