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Author White, Hayden V., 1928-2018.

Title Metahistory: the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe / Hayden White.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1973]

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Description xii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 435-441.
Contents The received tradition: the English: and the problem of historical consciousness -- The Historical Imagination between Metaphor and Irony -- Hegel: The Poetics of History and the Way beyond Irony -- Four kinds of 'realism" in Nineteenth-century historical writings -- Michelet: Historical Realism and Romance -- Ranke: Historical Realism as Comedy -- Tocqueville: Historical Realism as Tragedy -- Burckhardt: Historical Realism as Satire -- The Repudiation of "Realism" in late Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of History -- Historical Consciousness and the Rebirth of Philosophy of History -- Marx: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Metonymical Mode -- Nietzsche: The Poetic Defense of History in the Metaphorical Mode -- Croce: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Ironic Mode
Subject Historiography -- History -- 19th century.
Historiography.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject History -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Geschiedfilosofie.
Historiographie.
Histoire -- Philosophie.
ISBN 0801814693
9780801814693